who am I ?...

If this me is not I, then
who am I?

If I am not the one who speaks, then
who does?

If this me is only a robe then
who is
the one I am covering?


- Rumi

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Rumi: Hidden Music
Translated by Azima Melita Kolin
and Maryam Mafi
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 2001