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“I Am a Painter”
by Rumi

I am a painter
Painting pictures
all the time
Yet when I set them
near your beauty
I want to throw
them all away

I am a sculptor,
carving images
and filling each with life,
Yet when I compare
these with your beauty
I want to dump
them in a fire

Oh bringer of sweet wine,
Enemy of the sober,
You have laid waste to
every house
I ever built!

My soul has merged
with yours-

Water into water,
wine into wine

Now there is only love
and the scent of
your rose perfume

Every drop of my
blood calls out:

Dye me with the
color of your love
Make me the jewel
of your affection

In this house of
water and clay
My heart is in ruins

O Beloved, don’t
leave this house
Else it will crumble
to the ground …

Jalāl ad-Dīn
Mohammad Rūmī
(1207-1273)

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  I am a painter by Rumi
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