“When I have you…” by Rumi
"When I have you…"
RumiWhen I have you, the passions of love make me stay awake;
When you are not with me, I cannot sleep—I moan, I ache;
I’m awake the night you stay with me and the night you don’t—
But how those two nights are worlds apart, look, for heaven’s sake.
MARGINALIA
Because it will always be true, in this life or the next.
ABOUT RUMI
Mowlānā Jalāloddin Balkhi, known in Persia as Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī and in the West as Rumi, was born on September 30, 1207, in Balkh Province, Afghanistan, on the eastern edge of the Persian Empire. Rumi was recognized as a great spirit by the poet and teacher Fariduddin Attar. When his father died in 1231, Rumi became head of the madrasah, or spiritual learning community. Rumi fell ill and died on December 17, 1273, in Konya, Turkey. Thousands of visitors of all faiths visit… (more)
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