"Last year, I admired wines.
This, I'm wandering inside the red world.
Last year, I gazed at the fire.
This year I'm burnt kabob.
Thirst drove me down to the water
where I drank the moon's reflection.
Now I am a lion staring up totally lost
in love with the thing itself.

Don't ask questions about longing.
Look in my face. Soul-drunk, body-ruined,
these two sit helpless in a wrecked wagon.
Neither knows how to fix it.
And my heart, I'd say it was more like a donkey
sunk in a mudhole, struggling and miring deeper.
But listen to me: for one moment, quit being sad.
Hear blessings dropping
their blossoms around you. God."
Rumi
homeahead kaleidoscope - ron kuhns
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