Without you the instruments would die. One sits close beside you. Another takes a long kiss. The tambourine begs, Touch my skin so I can be myself. … - Rumi

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Without you the instruments would die.
One sits close beside you. Another takes a long kiss.
The tambourine begs, Touch my skin so I can be myself.

Let me feel you enter each limb bone by bone,
that what died last night can be whole today.

Why live some soberer way, and feel you ebbing out?
I won't do it.

Either give me enough wine or leave me alone,
now that I know how it is
to be with you in constant conversation.

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About Rumi

Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi (جلال‌الدین محمد رومی) Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Balkhi (جلال‌الدین محمد بلخى)‎ (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273) was an Afghan philosopher, theologian, poet, teacher, and founder of the Mevlevi (or Mawlawi) order of Sufism; also known as Mevlana (Our Guide), Jalaluddin Rumi, or simply Rumi.

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Native Name: جلال‌الدین مُحمَّد بلخی
Alternative Names: Jalāluddīn Balkhī Rumī • Jalaladdin Rumi • Jalāluddīn Muḥammad Balkhī Rūmī • Jalāl ad-Dīn ar-Rūmī • Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Balkhī • Jalāladdīn Rūmī • Rūmī • Jalal-e Din Rumi • Jallal ed-Din Muhammad Balkhy • Mawlana Rumi • Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī • Jelaluddin Rumi • Mowlana • Mawlana • Maulana • Mevlevi • Mawlawi • Mevlana • Jalaluddin Rumi • Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi • Jalāl-ad-dīn Rūmī
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I cannot sleep in your presence
In your absence, tears prevent me
you watch me my beloved
on each sleepiness night and
Only you see the difference
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