Be With Those Who Help Your Being
Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 1207 (Balkh) – 1273 (Konya )
Be with those who help your being.
Don't sit with indifferent people, whose breath
comes cold out of their mouths.
Not these visible forms, your work is deeper.
A chunk of dirt thrown in the air breaks to pieces.
If you don't try to fly,
and so break yourself apart,
you will be broken open by death,
when it's too late for all you could become.
Leaves get yellow. The tree puts out fresh roots
and makes them green.
Why are you so content with a love that turns you yellow?
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 13, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 473 |
Words | 93 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 5, 3 |
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