I saw Goodness getting drunk
I am gone,
lost any sense of wanting the wine
of the nowhereness ask me,
I don't know where I am.
At times I plunge
to the bottom of the sea,
at times, rise up
like the Sun.
At times, the universe is pregnant by me,
at times I give birth to it.
The milestone in my life
is the nowhereness,
I don't fit anywhere else.
This is me:
a rogue and a drunkard,
easy to spot
in the tavern of Lovers.
I am the one shouting hey ha.
They ask me why I don't
behave myself.
I say, when you
reveal your true nature,
then I will act my age.
Last night, I saw Goodness getting drunk.
He growled and said,
I am a nuisance, a nuisance.
A hundred souls cried out, but
we are yours, we are yours, we are yours.
You are the light
that spoke to Moses and said
I am God, I am God, I am God.
I said Shams-e Tabrizi, who are you?
He said, I am you, I am you, I am you.
http://peacefulrivers.homestead.com/Rumilove.html
With the Beloved's water of life, no illness remains
In the Beloved's rose garden of union, no thorn remains.
They say there is a window from one heart to another
How can there be a window where no wall remains?
From Thief of Sleep
by Shahram Shiva
http://www.ivantic.net/Ostale_knjiige/RUMI.pdf
BISMILAH
U krvi ti je da hodaš tromo.
Već godinama si neraspoložen.
Pa kako, tako snužden, da budeš krotak?
Zar stvarno očekuješ da dospeš bilo gde iz takvog pritvora?
Budi poput vazduha prostran da bi doznao tajnu.
Trenutno si sačinjen od jednakih delova gline
i vode – gusto, mutno, lepljivo, masno blato.
Avram je saznao kako su sunce i mesec i zvezde raspoređeni.
I rekao je:
Više neću pokušavati da Bogu pripišem saučesnike.
Tako si bespomoćan. Prepusti se milosti.
Okean vodi brigu o svakom talasu
dok ne dopre do obale.
Potrebno ti je više pomoći no što si svestan.
Trudiš se da živiš svoj život na nesigurnim skelama.
Reci Bismilah,
U ime Boga,
kao što sveštenik čini sa nožem u ruci kad žrtvuje životinju.
Bismilah svoju iznošenu ličnost
da bi otkrio svoje istinsko ime.