Quatrain 1359
Do you think I am in control here?
That for a moment, or even half a moment,
I can tell you what's going on?
I am no more than a pen in a writer's hand.
A ball smacked around by a polo stick.
Version by Jonathan Star
"Rumi - In the Arms of the Beloved"
Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, New York 1997
THE ONE WHO OWNS
Do you think I am in control here?
That for a moment, or even half a moment,
I can tell you what's going on?
I am no more than a pen in a writer's hand.
A ball smacked around by a polo stick.
Version by Jonathan Star
"Rumi - In the Arms of the Beloved"
Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, New York 1997
THE ONE WHO OWNS
Another version of Quatrain 1359.....
Do you think I know what I'm doing?
That for one breath or half-breath
I belong to myself?
As much as a pen knows what it's writing
or the ball can guess where it's going next.
Version by Coleman Barks
"The Essential Rumi", Castle Books, 1997
