An Acquaintance With Rumi

(1) There is a light seed grain inside.
      You fit it with yourself, or it dies.

(2) Today like every other day, 

      we wake up empty 
      and frightened.

      Don't open the door to the study
      and begin reading. Take down a     

       musical instrument.

      Let the beauty we love be what we do.
      There are hundreds of ways to kneel  

      and kiss the ground. 

(3) Who sees inside from outside?
      Who finds hundreds of mysteries
      even where minds are deranged ?

      See through his eyes what he sees.

      Who then is looking out from his eyes?

  (4)  The minute I heard my first love story

       I started looking for you, not knowing
       how blind that was.

       Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
       They're in each other all along.

(5)  We are the mirror as well as the 

       face in it.
       We are tasting the taste this minute
       of eternity. We are pain
       and what cures pain , both. We are
       the sweet cold water and the
        Jar that pours. 

(6)   In your light I learn how to love.
        In your beauty, how to make poems

        You dance inside my chest,
        where no one sees you,
  
        But sometimes I do,
        and that sight becomes this art .

(7)   I am filled with you.
       Skin,blood,bone,brain, and soul,
       There's no room for lack of trust, 

       or trust.

       Nothing in this existence but
      that existence

(8)   Humble living does not diminish.It fills.
        Going back to a simpler self
        gives wisdom.
  
        When a man makes up a story for

         his child,
        he becomes a father and a child
        together , listening.