Seeking the Source

Seeking The Source

A voice out of this world
calls on our souls
not to wait any more,
get ready to move
to the original home.
 

Your real home,
your real birth place
is up here with the heavens.

Let your soul take a flight
like a happy phoenix.
 

You've been tied up,
your feet in the mud
your body roped to a log. 

Break loose your ties
get ready for the final flight.
 

Make your last journey
from this strange world. 

Soar for the heights
where there is no more
separation of you and your home.

God has created
your wings not to be dormant. 

As long as you are alive
you must try more and more
to use your wings to show you're alive.
 

These wings of yours
are filled with quests and hopes. 

If they are not used
they will wither away,
they will soon decay.
 

You may not like
what i'm going to tell you. 

You are stuck. 

Now you must seek
nothing but the source.

From Rumi: Fountain of Fire, 

Translated by Nader Khalili