Look At Love

Look At Love

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 the 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.

From Rumi: Fountain of Fire, 

Translated by Nader Khalili