Thursday, April 15, 2010

Whatever you love, you are

If you want money more than anything,
you'll be bought and sold.

If you have a greed for food,
you'll be a loaf of bread.

This is a subtle truth:
whatever you love, you are.

- Rumi

1 comment:

  1. In my hallucination
    I saw my beloved's flower garden
    In my vertigo, in my dizziness
    In my drunken haze
    Whirling and dancing like a spinning wheel

    I saw myself as the source of existence
    I was there in the beginning
    And I was the spirit of love
    Now I am sober
    There is only the hangover
    And the memory of love
    And only the sorrow

    I yearn for happiness
    I ask for help
    I want mercy
    And my love says:

    Look at me and hear me
    Because I am here
    Just for that

    I am your moon and your moonlight too
    I am your flower garden and your water too
    I have come all this way, eager for you
    Without shoes or shawl

    I want you to laugh
    To kill all your worries
    To love you
    To nourish you

    Oh sweet bitterness
    I will soothe you and heal you
    I will bring you roses
    I, too, have been covered with thorns

    Rumi

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