Prescious Love
Oh God!
I have discovered love!
How marvelous!
How good!
How beautiful it is!
My body is warm
from the heat
of this love
How secret!
How deep!
How obvious it is!
I offer my salutations
to the stars and the moon
to all my brothers and all my sisters
I offer my salutations
to the spirit of passion
that aroused and excited this universe
and all it contains
I have fallen
unable to rise
What kind of trap is this?
What chains have tied my hands and feet?
It is so strange
and so wonderful
this loving helplessness of mine
Be silent
do not reveal the secret
of my precious love
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People want you to be happy.
Don’t keep serving them your pain!
If you could untie your wings
and free your soul of jealousy,
you and everyone one around you
would fly up like doves.
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In your light I learn how to love
In your beauty, how to make poems.
You dance inside my chest,
where no one sees you,
but sometimes I do, and that
sight becomes this art.
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(Love Poems of Rumi | edited by Deepak Chopra)
