Rumi's Waterbead

from Faccia della Luna by Lydia & the Fir

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The Seed Market

Can you find another market like this?
Where, with your one rose
you can buy hundreds of rose gardens?

Where,
for one seed
get a whole wilderness?

For one weak breath,
a divine wind?

You've been fearful
of being absorbed in the ground,
or drawn up by the air.

Now, your waterbead lets go
and drops into the ocean,
where it came from.

It no longer has the form it had,
but it's still water.
The essence is the same.

This giving up is not a repenting.
It's a deep honoring of yourself.

When the ocean comes to you
as a lover,
marry at once,
quickly,
for God's sake!

Don't postpone it!
Existence has no better gift.

No amount of searching will find this.

A perfect falcon,
for no reason
has landed on your shoulder,
and become yours.

From The Essential Rumi, page 153. Translated by Coleman Barks

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you've been scared of being absorbed into the ground
you've been scared of being caught up into the sky
now your waterbead lets go
to the ocean where you're home again

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from Faccia della Luna, released October 16, 2016
Words modified from "The Seed Market" by Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks

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