' message to the ego '...

My ego is stubborn, often drunk, impolite.

My loving: Finely sensitive, impatient, confused.

Please take messages from one to the other,
reply and counter-reply.


- Rumi

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Version by Coleman Barks
"Unseen Rain"
Threshold Books, 1986