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Rumi: Say I Am You (Sufi poem)

Monday, 2. November 2009, 01:17:45

I find peace where I can,
this video gave me more than
I was looking for.

I hope you will enjoy it as well.

with love,
Fati

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Whoever Brought Me Here

Sunday, 22. June 2008, 15:31:29

sufi, spiritual, music, poetry ...

Urania

All day I think about it, then at night I say it.
Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing?
I have no idea.
My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that,
and I intend to end up there.

This drunkenness began in some other tavern.
When I get back around to that place,
I'll be completely sober. Meanwhile,
I'm like a bird from another continent, sitting in this aviary.
The day is coming when I fly off,
but who is it now in my ear who hears my voice?
Who says words with my mouth?

Who looks out with my eyes? What is the soul?
I cannot stop asking.
If I could taste one sip of an answer,
I could break out of this prison for drunks.
I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way.
Whoever brought me here, will have to take me home.

This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.
I don't plan it.
When I'm outside the saying of it,
I get very quiet and rarely speak at all.

Poem by Rumi
Trans. Coleman Barks.

Inspired with love,
Fatimah

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