WHAT SHALL I BE?

[Guest guest]

WHAT SHALL I BE?

I have again and again grown like grass;

I have experienced seven hundred and seventy moulds.

I died from minerality and became vegetable;

And from vegetativeness I died and became animal.

I died from animality and became man.

Then why fear disappearance through death?

Next time I shall die, Bringing forth wings and feathers like angels:

After that soaring higher than angels--What you cannot imagine.

I shall be that! ~ Jalaludin Rumi