Becoming...

If you want money more than anything,
you'll be bought and sold.

If you have a greed for food,
you'll be a loaf of bread.

This is a subtle truth:
whatever you love, you are.

- Rumi

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Version by Coleman Barks
"Birdsong"
Maypop, 1993