Begin

BEGIN

This is now. Now is,

all there is. Don't wait for Then;

strike the spark, light the fire.

Sit at the Beloved's table,

feast with gusto, drink your fill

then dance

the way branches

of jasmine and cypress

dance in a spring wind.

The green earth

is your cloth;

tailor your robe

with dignity and grace.

~ Rumi ~

(adapted by Jose Orez from a version by Coleman Barks in The Soul of Rumi)


Web version: www.panhala.net/Archive/Begin.html