Look at Love - Maulana Rumi

Look at Love...

how it tangles

with the one fallen in love

 

look at spirit

how it fuses with earth

giving it new life

 

why are you so busy

with this or that or good or bad

pay attention to how things blend

 

why talk about all

the known and the unknown

see how unknown merges into the known

 

why think separately

of this life and the next

when one is born from the last

 

look at your heart and tongue

one feels but deaf and dumb

the other speaks in words and signs

 

look at water and fire

earth and wind

enemies and friends all at once

 

the wolf and the lamb

the lion and the deer

far away yet together

 

look at the unity of this

spring and winte

rmanifested in the equinox

 

you too must mingle my friends

since the earth and the sky

are mingled just for you and me

 

be like sugarcane

sweet yet silent

don't get mixed up with bitter words

 

my beloved grows

right out of my own heart

how much more union can there be