| You bind me, and I tear away in a rage to open out into air,
 
 A round brightness, a candle point,
 all reason, all love.
 
 This confusing joy, your doing,
 this hangover, your tender thorn.
 
 You turn to look, I turn.
 I'm not saying this right.
 
 I am a jailed crazy who ties up spirit-women.
 I am Solomon.
 
 What goes comes back. Come back.
 We never left each other.
 
 A disbeliever hides disbelief,
 but I will say his secret.
 
 More and more awake, getting up at night,
 spinning and falling with love for My Beloved .
 
 ~ Rumi
 Coleman Barks
 "The Essential Rumi"
 HarperSanFrancisco, 1995
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