' The Heart and the Beloved '...

You have two hands, two legs, and two eyes.

But if your heart and the Beloved are also two,
what good is that?

You call out, I am the lover,
But these are mere words.

If you see lover and Beloved as two,
you either have double vision,
or you can’t count.



- Rumi

In the Arms of the Beloved
Translations by Jonathan Star
Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, 1997