Say I Am You : Melvana Rumi

I am dust particles in sunlight.

I am the round sun.

To the sun, Keep moving.

and the breathing of evening.

and surf on the cliff.

I am also the coral reef they founder on.

Silence, thought, and voice.

a spark off a stone, a flickering in metal.

Rose and nightingale lost in the fragrance.

the evolutionary intelligence, the lift and the falling away.

You who know Jelaluddin,

Say I am you.

To the bits of dust I say, Stay.

I am morning mist,

I am wind in the top of a grove,

Mast, rudder, helmsman, and keel,

I am a tree with a trained parrot in its branches.

The musical air coming through a flute,

Both candle and the moth crazy around it.

I am all orders of being, the circling galaxy,

What is and what is not.

You are the one in all, say who I am.

[Translation by Coleman Barks.From Rumi: The Big Red Book. The Great Masterpiece Celebrating Mystical Love & Friendship; Odes and Quatrains from “The Shams,” ed. and trans. Coleman Barks (New York: Harper One, 2010), 280].