The Sea...

Day and night there is movement of foam on the Sea.

You see the foam, but not the Sea. Amazing!

We are dashing against each other like boats:

our eyes are darkened though we're on clear water.

O you who've gone to sleep in the body's boat,
you've seen the water,
but look at the Water of the water.

The water has a Water that is driving it;

the spirit has a Spirit that is calling it.

- Rumi

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Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
"Rumi: Daylight"
Threshold Books, 1994