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The cutting away -- Ghazal 1519

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come and see me

today i am away

out of this world

 

hidden away

from me and i

 

i grabbed a dagger

made slices of

me from myself

since i belong

not to me

not to anyone

 

i am so sorry

for not having done

this cutting away before

it was my soul's mind

and not mine

 

i have no idea

how my inner fire

is burning today

my tongue

is on a different flame

 

i see myself

with a hundred faces

and to each one

i swear it is me

 

surely i must have

a hundred faces

i confess none is mine

i have no face

 

-- Ghazal 1519

Translation by Nader Khalili

" Rumi, Fountain of Fire "

Burning Gate Press, 1984

 

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