Saturday, February 25, 2012

'What's Not Here' by Rumi

'What's Not Here' by Rumi


"I start out on this road, call it
Love or emptiness, I only know what's

not here: resentment seeds, back-
scratching greed, worrying about out-

come, fear of people. When a bird gets
free, it doesn't go back for remnants

left on the bottom of the cage! Close
by, I'm rain. Far off, a cloud of fire.

I seem restless, but I am deeply at ease.
Branches tremble, the roots are still.

I am a universe in a handful of dirt,
whole when totally demolished. Talk

about choices does not apply to me.
While intelligence considers options,

I am somewhere lost in the wind."

Poem shared by Daniel Baker.

















photos by Maria M

1 comment:

Derick said...

Whoa...your best photographs yet!