Say I Am You

Say I Am You

I am dust particles in sunlight.
I am the round sun.

To the bits of dust I say, Stay.
To the sun, Keep moving.

I am morning mist,
and the breathing of evening.

I am wind in the top of a grove,
and surf on the cliff.

Mast, rudder, helmsman, and keel,
I am also the coral reef they founder on.

I am a tree with a trained parrot in its branches.
Silence, thought, and voice.

The musical air coming through a flute,
a spark off a stone, a flickering in metal.

Both candle and the moth crazy around it.
Rose and nightingale lost in the fragrance.

I am all orders of being,
the circling galaxy,
the evolutionary intelligence,
the lift and the falling away.

What is and what is not.
You who know Jalaluddin,

You the One in all, say who I am.

Say I am you.

– Jalaluddin Rumi –

Translation by Coleman Barks
From Rumi: The Big Red Book -The Great Masterpiece Celebrating Mystical Love & Friendship

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