LOOK AT LOVE
--Rumi
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 numb
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
