sweetheart i see myself
very close to you
like earth
i welcome your every step
is it fair to call you
my entire world
and yet not
find you around
Translation by Nader Khalili
Rumi, Dancing the Flame
Cal-Earth Press, 2001
We are bound together.
I am the ground
You are the step.
How unfair is this Love!
I can see Your world
but You, I cannot.
Translation by Azima Melita Kolin and Maryam Mafi
Rumi: Whispers of the Beloved
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 1999
Friend, our closeness is this:
Anywhere you put your foot, feel me
in the firmness under you.
How is it with this love,
I see your world and not you?
Version by Coleman Barks
Open Secret
Threshold Books, 1984
