' You Are Near '...

You are my face:

no wonder I don't see You:

such closeness is a mystifying veil.

You are my reason:

it's no wonder I don't see You,

because of all this perplexity of thought.

You are nearer to me than my jugular vein.


- Rumi

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