| Rumi poetry |
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| Poetic translations by Nader Khalili... |
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who is this existence who puts sadness in your heart who is this soul who sweetens your grief as soon as you crawl the one who first frightens you with deadly snakes before opening the treasure vault who changes a monster to an angel a sorrow to happiness who gives the blind wisdom and inner sight who changes darkness to light thistles to flowers who sheds the sins of the sinful like autumn leaves and puts guilt in the heart of its own enemies who makes them repent and in silence says amen and whose amen brings inner happiness and soulful delight who changes bitter thoughts to lightness and joyous zeal bestows fire and makes you leap with unknown joy the fire that can make a hero from a desperate heart who is this existence who is this tell me who |
i was ready to tell the story of my life but the ripple of tears and the agony of my heart wouldn't let me i began to stutter saying a word here and there and all along i felt as tender as a crystal ready to be shattered in this stormy sea we call life all the big ships come apart board by board how can i survive riding a lonely little boat with no oars and no arms my boat did finally break by the waves and i broke free as i tied myself to a single board though the panic is gone i am now offended why should i be so helpless rising with one wave and falling with the next i don't know if i am nonexistence while i exist but i know for sure when i am i am not but when i am not then i am now how can i be a skeptic about the resurrection and coming to life again since in this world i have many times like my own imagination died and been born again that is why after a long agonizing life as a hunter i finally let go and got hunted down and became free |
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