The breeze at dawn
has secrets to tell you.
Don’t go back to sleep.
You must ask
for what you really want.
Don’t go back to sleep.
People are going back and forth
across the doorsill
where the two worlds touch.
The door is round and open.
Don’t go back to sleep.
– Rumi
Persian mystical poet who many claim as their own, Turkey, Iraq, Syria. In Istanbul I found collected works, the life of.
