| If you can only reflect like a clean mirror
 you'll be that magical spirit
 
 transmute from a wave
 to an ocean
 from an abyss
 to surpass an angel
 
 your soul and mine
 used to be mingled
 breathing as one
 journeying as one
 
 though you're in the limelight now
 you must still kiss a candle
 to feel the essence
 to feel the light.
 
 ~ Rumi
 - Ghazal (Ode) 3264
 Translated by Nader Khalili
 "Rumi, Fountain of Fire"
 Burning Gate Press, Los Angeles, 1994
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