RUMI 7

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The Boat of My Being

 

One evening a crescent Moon appeared,

Descended from the night and gazed at me.

As a falcon catches its prey at hunting time,

This Moon snatched me up and orbited the sky.

 

When I looked attentively, deep inside myself,

There was nobody there for me to see;

Because in that Moon’s deep look my restless mind,

Through God’s grace, was taken to my heart,

And all Divine secrets, stood revealed.

 

The spheres of heaven merged in that bright light,

The boat of my Being sailed serenely in that sea ,

Its waters became ruffled by mental waves,

And the voice of Wisdom was gently heard.

 

Then the sea foamed ,and at every fleck,

Figures formed and frothily flooded forth .

Each received a signal from within this sea

And dissolved as Spirit into that vast ocean.

Without the great power of Almighty God

One could never see the moon nor be the sea.

 

 

From some versifications of Rumi

Alan Jacobs