Confused and Distraught.................

Again I am raging,
I am in such a state by your soul that every
bond you bind, I break, by your soul.
I am like heaven,
like the moon,
like a candle by your glow;
I am all

reason, all love, all soul, by your soul.
My joy is of your doing,
my hangover of your thorn; whatever
side you turn your face,
I turn mine, by your soul.
I spoke in error;
it is not surprising to speak in error in this
state, for this moment I cannot tell cup from wine, by your soul.
I am that madman in bonds who binds the "divs"; I, the madman,
am a Solomon with the "divs", by your soul.

Whatever form other than love raises up its head from my
heart, forthwith I drive it out of the court of my heart, by your soul.
Come, you who have departed, for the thing that departs
comes back; neither you are that, by my soul, nor I am that, by your soul.
Disbeliever, do not conceal disbelief in your soul, for I will recite
the secret of your destiny, by your soul.

Out of love of Sham-e Tabrizi,
through wakefulness or
nightrising,
like a spinning mote I am distraught,
by your soul.










(Translated by A.J.Arberry
“Mystical Poems of Rumi” )