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Let Love,

Jalal al-Din Rumi

1207 –

1273

^{translated from the Farsi by}^{Haleh Liza Gafori}

Let Love,
the water of life,
flow through our veins.

Let a Love-drunk mirror
steeped in the wine of dawn
translate night.

You who pour the wine,

put the cup of oneness in my hand
and let me drink from it
until I can’t imagine separation.

Love, you are the archer.
My mind is your prey.
Carry my heart
and make my existence your bull’s-eye.

^{translated from the Farsi by}^{Haleh Liza Gafori}

Whatever the ways of the world,
What fruits do you bring?

Say earth and sky fall to idolatry—
all of us on our knees, worshipping figurines.

Jalal al-Din Rumi

2022

^{translated from the Farsi by}^{Haleh Liza Gafori}

Why paint night over nightless day?
Every religion has Love,
but Love has no religion.

Love is an ocean—
no borders no shores.

Jalal al-Din Rumi

2022

^{translated from the Farsi by}^{Haleh Liza Gafori}

Just the other day,
fire whispered to smoke,
“No stick of aloeswood shuns me.

From its gnarls and knots,
my flames unfurl a honeyed musk
of amber, fruit, and flower.

Jalal al-Din Rumi

2022