I don't want to call you by your name.....by Rumi

Sometimes 
I call you my cup, 

sometimes
the jug, 

sometimes
my precious gold,

sometimes
my silver moon.

Sometimes
I call you a seed,

sometimes
the prey

and sometimes
a trap.

And all this is because
I don't want to call you by your name.

~ Rumi
Translated by Azima Melita Kolin
and Maryam Mafi
Rumi: Hidden Music
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 2001