Rumi

Some untitled poems, by Rumi

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Drunks fear the police,
but the police are drunks too.
People in this town love them both
like different chess pieces.'


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In the middle of the night
I cried out,
"Who lives in this love
I have?"
You said, "I do, but I'm not here
alone. Why are these other images
with me?"


*
There's a strange frenzy in my head,
of birds flying,
each particle circulating on its own.
Is the one I love everywhere?


*
You are in love with me, I shall make you perplexed.

Do not build much, for I intend to have you in ruins. If you build two hundred houses in a manner that the bees do; I shall make you as homeless as a fly. If you are the mount Qaf in stability. I shall make you whirl like a millstone.