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"That Lives in Us" by Jalaludin Rumi
If you put your hands on this oar with me,
they will never harm another, and they will come to find
they hold everything you want.
If you put your hands on this oar with me, they would no longer
lift anything to your
mouth that might wound your precious land--
that sacred earth that is
your body.
If you put your soul against this oar with me,
the power that made the universe will enter your sinew
from a source not outside your limbs, but from a holy realm
that lives in us.
Exuberant is existence, time a husk.
When the moment cracks open, ecstasy leaps out and devours space;
love goes mad with blessings, like my words give.
Why lay yourself on the torturer's rack of the past and future?
The mind that tries to shape tomorrow beyond its capacities
will find no rest.
Be kind to yourself, dear--to your innocent follies.
Forget any sounds or touch you knew that did not help you dance.
You will come to see that all evolves us.
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Hi b.c.
ReplyDeleteIt's nice to hear from you. I missed you very much. Kind regards from Zurich.
thank you so much for your kindness my dear friend from Zurich-- it is so nice to hear from you too :))
DeleteI am not much of poetry person but i like these words 'The mind that tries to shape tomorrow beyond its capacities will find no rest.
ReplyDeleteBe kind to yourself, dear--to your innocent follies.' :)
hi George, thanks! i like those lines too, its good advice i think :) i can only read a few poems at a time too, they can be difficult to understand, sometimes downright bewildering but i do like it when i read a poem and i feel like the words are alive with meaning :))
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