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Are you jealous of the ocean's generosity ?
Why would you refuse to give
this joy to anyone?
Fish don't hold this sacred liquid in cups!
They swim the huge fluid freedom.

Rumi

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Drumsound rises on the air,

its throb, my heart.

A voice inside the beat says,

"I know you're tired,

but come. This is the way."


Rumi
If I were Earth

Each tear that fell

from the crushed

moons of your face,

stabbed me,

broke and split

into a thousand pains.

But I held out my arms,

and not one did I miss,

no, not one did I miss,

no not one pain.

And if I don't let

you soak into me

and bring me up,

if I don't let you seep

deep into me

and teach me,

then you can cry in

the morning to the sun,

and tell him to rise up

and burn me away.


Henry Dumas