WORLD ACCORDING TO BOB

The man of God is drunken without wine, .... Rumi

Saturday, May 17, 2008

WITHOUT YOU

I plant some flowers without you,
they become thorns.
I see a peacock, it turns into a snake.
I play the rubaab* – nothing but noise.
I go to the highest heaven, it's a burning hell.


- Version by Jonathan Star and Shahram Shiva
A Garden Beyond Paradise
The Mystical Poetry of Rumi
Bantam Books, 1992

* Harp