the water is calling...

No sound of clapping comes from only one hand.

The thirsty man is moaning, "O delicious water!"

The water is calling,

"Where is the one who will drink me?"

This thirst in our souls is the magnetism of the Water:

We are Its,

and It is ours.



- Rumi

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Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
"Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance"
Threshold Books, 1996