Tuesday, June 25, 2019

Soul Fury- Rumi- Coleman Barks


I ask the reed flute, why are you crying
How can there be such tears,
When nothing has been lost

The reed flute says, Not so
They took me from the lips
that once made sugar throughout my whole and silent body

Now I live letting others
Make crying sounds
With my emptiness





The trope of loss and emptiness is a strange one.
Even when the world sees you as an art form, making beautiful music that touches souls, the beauty may be coming from the depths of emptiness and deadening inside.. we believe that the music is divine, but it is ultimately the expression of the emptiness through the various holes torn through the reed’s body




The purpose of a story is not to hold your attention
but to put you back doing your work, inner and outer......

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