what people say...

We're not afraid of God's blade,
or of being chained up, or
of having our heads severed.

We're burning up quickly, tasting
a little hellfire as we go.

You cannot imagine
how little it matters to us
what people say.


- Rumi

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Version by Coleman Barks
"Birdsong"
Maypop, 1993