Attachment...

If I hold you with my emotions, you'll become
a wished-for companion.

If I hold you with my eyes, you'll grow old
and die.

So I hold you where we both mix with the infinite.

- Rumi

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Version by Coleman Barks
"Say I Am You"
Maypop, 1994