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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