how very close

is your soul with mine

i know for sure

everything you think

goes through my mind


i am with you

now and doomsday

not like a host

caring for you

at a feast alone


with you i am happy

all the times

the time i offer my life

or the time

you gift me your love



offering my life

is a profitable venture

each life i give

you pay in turn

a hundred lives again



in this house

there are a thousand

dead and still souls

making you stay

as this will be yours



a handful of earth

cries aloud

i used to be hair or

i used to be bones

and just the moment

when you are all confused

leaps forth a voice

hold me close

i'm love and
i'm always yours


~*rumi*~

-ghazal number 1515-
translated by Nader Khalili