Poetry is to Music as Lyric is to Soul: The way home - Rumi

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Monday, October 30, 2006

The way home - Rumi

You who have invited me to your house! lead the way! I am so bewildered, I do not know the way home. You who have enchanted the city and the village alike! Where is the house? show it to me! I do not know the way home. How do you expect knowledge, of the one who is not even alive? Come forward! do not hurt me anymore! I do not know the way home. O glorious musician! play your drum with your hands Play this tune to my heart's content: I do not know the way home. (Divan 1465:1-3, 6) Translated by... Sign in to see full entry.

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