Now Sleeping, Now Awake - Rumi

Now sleeping, now awake, my heart is in constant fervor.

It is a covered saucepan, placed on fire.

O you! who have offered us from a cup a silencing wine;

Each moment a new tale is shouting to be told in silence.

In his wrath there are a hundred kindnesess,

in his meanness a hundred generosities;In his ignorance immeasurable gnosis, silently speaking like the mind.

The words of those whom you have silenced, cannot hear

but those whom you have made unconscious;

I am both silent and fermenting for you like the sea of Aden!

Divan, 1808:6-9

From: Reading Mystical Lyric by Fatemeh Keshavarz