Birds Nesting Near the Coast –Rumi
(1207-1273)
Soul, if you
want to learn secrets, your heart must forget about shame and dignity.
You are
God’s lover, yet you worry what people are saying.
The rope
belt the early Christians wore to show who they were, throw it away.
Inside you
are sweet beyond telling and the cathedral there, so deeply tall.
Evening now,
more your desire than a woman’s hair.
And not
knowledge, walk with those innocent of that,
face inside
fire, birds nesting near the coast, earning their beauty, servants to the
ocean.
There is a
sun within every person, the you we call companion.
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