Be With Those Who Help Your Being
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greatpoetryBe with those who help your being.
Don't sit with indifferent people, whose breath
comes cold out of their mouths.
Not these visible forms, your work is deeper.
A chunk of dirt thrown in the air breaks to pieces.
If you don't try to fly,
and so break yourself apart,
you will be broken open by death,
when it's too late for all you could become.
Leaves get yellow. The tree puts out fresh roots
and makes them green.
Why are you so content with a love that turns you yellow?
--Rumi
Don't sit with indifferent people, whose breath
comes cold out of their mouths.
Not these visible forms, your work is deeper.
A chunk of dirt thrown in the air breaks to pieces.
If you don't try to fly,
and so break yourself apart,
you will be broken open by death,
when it's too late for all you could become.
Leaves get yellow. The tree puts out fresh roots
and makes them green.
Why are you so content with a love that turns you yellow?
--Rumi
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Date: 2003-12-09 01:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-12-09 11:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-12-09 08:11 pm (UTC)Hmmm... that reminds me of something I want to post here...
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Date: 2003-12-09 09:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-12-09 11:22 pm (UTC)Coleman Barks
death
Date: 2003-12-10 08:39 pm (UTC)I wonder if the poet actually gave this poem to a girl. That would be brave.
Re: death
Date: 2003-12-11 04:59 pm (UTC)