SOMETIMES I DO

In your light I learn how to love
In your beauty, how to make poems.

You dance inside my chest,
where no one sees you,

but sometimes I do,
and that light becomes this art.


Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi
Translated by Coleman Barks
From the book of A Year with Rumi

Published with the written permission of Coleman Barks

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