Lovers find secret places
inside this violent world
where they make transactions
with beauty.
Reason says, Nonsense.
I have walked and measured the walls here.
There are no places like that.
Love says, There are. Reason sets up a market
and begins doing business.
Love has more hidden work.
Hallaj steps away from the pulpit
and climbs the stairs of the gallows.
Lovers feel a truth inside themselves
that rational people keep denying.
It isreasonable to say, Surrender
is just an idea that keeps people from leading their lives.
Love responds, No. This
thinking is what is dangerous.
Using language obscures what
Shams came to give
Every day the sun rises
out of low word-clouds
into burning silence...
Hazrat Jalal Udin Rumi ra
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