Sour, Doughy, Numb, and Raw -- Rumi

[Guest guest]

If we're not together in the heart,

what's the point? When body and soul

 

aren't dancing, there's no pleasure

in colorful clothing. Why have

 

cooking pans when there's no food in

the house? In this world full of

 

fresh bread, amber and musk, so many

different fragrances, what are they

 

to someone with no sense of smell?

If you stay away from fire, you'll

 

be sour, doughy, numb, and raw. You

may have lovely, just-baked loaves

 

around you, but those friends cannot

help. You have to feel oven-fire.

 

I could not have known

what love is if I had never

 

felt this longing. Anything

done to excess becomes

 

boring, except this overflow

that moves toward you.

 

 

LoveAlways,

 

Mazie