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earth and ashes...


You're from a country beyond this universe,

yet your best guess is,

you're made of earth and ashes!

You engrave this physical image everywhere,

as a sign that you've forgotten

where you're from!


- Rumi


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Version by Coleman Barks
"Birdsong"
Maypop, 1993

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