Added Aug 16, 2019
Today I would like to share one of the most wonderful and touching poems about love that I know:
Look at Love, by Rumi (1207 - 1273), English version by Nader Khalili:
"Look at Love…
how it tangles,
with the one fallen in love.
Look at spirit,
how it fuses with earth,
giving it new life.
Why are you so busy,
with this or that or good or bad,
pay attention to how things blend.
Why talk about all,
the known and the unknown,
see how unknown merges into the known.
Why think separately,
of this life and the next
when one is born from the last.
Look at your heart and tongue,
one feels but deaf and dumb,
the other speaks in words and signs.
Look at water and fire,
earth and wind,
enemies and friends all at once.
The wolf and the lamb,
the lion and the deer,
far away yet together.
Look at the unity of this,
spring and winter,
manifested in the equinox.
You too must mingle my friends,
since the earth and the sky
are mingled just for you and me.
Be like sugarcane,
sweet yet silent,
don’t get mixed up with bitter words.
My beloved grows
right out of my own heart,
how much more union can there be?"