Saturday, June 1, 2013

THE GREAT UNTYING




We search this world for the great untying
of what was wed to us at birth
and gets undone at dying.

We sleep beside a stream, thirsty.
Cursed and unlucky his whole life,
an old man finishes up in a niche
of a ruin, inches from the treasure.


MEVLANA CELALEDDİN RUMİ
Translated by COLEMAN BARKS
From the book of A Year with Rumi

Published with the written permission of COLEMAN BARKS