Danza Sufi www.youtube.com/watch?v=al5ZuZ6_b0I

A moment of happiness

A moment of happiness
you and I sitting on the verandah !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
apparently two, but one in soul, you and I !!!!!!!!!!
We feel the flowing water of life here,
you and I, with the garden's beauty
and the birds singing.
The stars will be watching us,
and we will show them
what it is to be a thin crescent moon.
You and I unselfed, will be together !!!!!!!!!
indifferent to idle speculation, you and I !!!!!!!!!
The parrots of heaven will be cracking sugar
as we laugh together, you and I.
In one form upon this earth,
and in another form in a timeless sweet land.

From: Kulliyat-e Shams,

Because I cannot sleep

I make music at night.
I am troubled by the one
whose face has the color of spring flowers.

I have neither sleep nor patience,
neither a god reputation nor disgrace.

A thousand robes of wisdom are gone.
All my good manners have moved a thousand miles away.
The heart and the mind are left angry with each other.
The stars and the moon are envious of each other.
Because of this alienation the physical universe
is getting tighter and tighter.

The moon says, "How long will I remain
suspended without a sun?"
Without Love's jewel inside of me,
let the bazaar of my existence be destroyed stone by stone.

O Love, You who have been called by a thousand names,
You who know how to pour the wine
into the chalice of the body,
You who give culture to a thousand cultures,
You who are faceless but have a thousand faces,
O Love, You who shape the faces
of Turks, Europeans, and Zanzibaris,
give me a glass from Your bottle,
or a handful of bheng from Your Branch.

Remove the cork once more.
Then we'll see a thousand chiefs prostrate themselves,
and a circle of ecstatic troubadours will play.

Then the addict will be breed of craving.
and will be resurrected,
and stand in awe till Judgement Day.

Rumi

for the sheikH of my Heart