' You Are My Face '...

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