Don't Go Back to Sleep

[qos]

This was the dailyrumi poem this morning.
It's the first Rumi poem I remember hearing, and it remains one of my very favorites.


Don't Go Back to Sleep

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."

-- translated by John Moyne and Coleman Barks

Comments

[seauleja.livejournal.com]

Where did you get that icon you have with a quote from this poem? I'd like to have that picture for my belief images collage.

[qos.livejournal.com]

This was made by Ahavah_eyah (I never can remember how to spell her name) -- but she's one of the maintainers of the dailyrumi group.