Wolkenherz

Love came, and became like blood in my body.::
It rushed through my veins and encircled my heart.:::
Everywhere I looked, I saw one thing.
The Beloved's name written…
on my limbs,on my forehead, on the back of my neck, on my right big toe…
Oh, my friend, all that you see of me.. is just a shell,
and the rest belongs to the Beloved…
*****Rumi****

Liebe kam, und floss wie das Blut durch meinen Körper.
Es hetzte durch meine Adern und umkreiste mein Herz.
Überall, wohin ich sah, sah ich des Geliebten Namen…
auf all meinen Gliedern…auf meiner Stirn, auf der Rückseite meines Nackens, auf meiner rechten großen Zehe…
OH-, mein Freund, all das, was du an mir siehst ist nur die Oberfläche …der Rest gehört dem Geliebten...

a poem

A moment of happiness,
you and I sitting on the verandah,
apparently two, but one in soul, you and I.

We feel the flowing water of life here,
you and I, with the garden's beauty
and the birds singing.

The stars will be watching us,
and we will show them
what it is to be a thin crescent moon.

You and I unselfed, will be together,
indifferent to idle speculation, you and I.

The parrots of heaven will be cracking sugar
as we laugh together, you and I.

In one form upon this earth,
and in another form in a timeless sweet land.*

*RUMI