TRUTH- BY RUMI
I met last night in stealth with Wisdom's elder
Begged him to divulge in full life's secret
This he softly, softly whispered in my ear:
It must be see, it can’t be told, keep quiet....!

GOD TOO? BY RUMI
King , saint , thief , Madman-
Love has grabbed everyone by the neck
And drags us to God by secret ways....
How could I ever have guessed?
That God, too, desired us?

FRIENDSHIP
"'The connection to the Friend
is secret and very fragile.

The image of that friendship
is how you love, the grace

And delicacy, the subtle talking
together, in full prostration,

outside of time. When you're
there, remember the fierce

courtesy of the one within you.

WHEN HAS DYING MADE ME LESS? RUMI
I died to mineral, joined the realm of plants
I died to vegetable, joined animal
I died in the animal realm, became man
So why fear? When has dying made me less?
In turn again I'll die from human form
only to sprout an angels head and wings
And then from angel form i will ebb away
For ' All things perish but the face of God"
And once again I’m sacrificed from angel form
I’m what imagination can’t contain.
So let me be naught! Naughtness, like an organ, sings to me 'we verily return to him'
Know that death-the communities agreed-
is like the font of life in darkness hid