Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts

23 October 2007

Longing

Some 1,200 years after the crucifixion Rumi, the Persian poet, wrote:

Longing is the core of mystery
Longing itself brings the cure
The only rule is:
suffer the pain.

Your desire must be disciplined
and what you want to happen in time,
sacrificed.

Well, 900 years after those words, I'm beginning to understand...