object:1.jr - Seizing my life in your hands, you thrashed me clean
author class:Jalaluddin Rumi
subject class:Poetry
class:chapter
English version by Andrew Harvey Original Language Persian/Farsi & Turkish Seizing my life in your hands, you thrashed me clean On savage rocks of eternal mind. How its colors bled, until they grew white! You smile and sit back: I dry in your sun. The Sea boils with passion for you, The clouds pour pearls at your feet A lightning from your love has pierced the earth This smoke curling to heaven is its child. We were green: we ripened and grew golden. The Sea terrified us: we learned how to drown. Squat and earthbound, we unfolded huge wings. We started sober: are love's startled drunkards. You hide me in your cloak of nothingness Reflect my ghost in your glass of being I am nothing, yet appear: transparent dream Where your eternity briefly trembles. [1961.jpg] -- from The Way of Passion: A Celebration of Rumi, by Andrew Harvey <
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