Rumi

Who makes these changes?

  • Who makes these changes?
  • I shoot an arrow right.
  • It lands left.
  • I ride after a deer and find myself
  • Chased by a hog.
  • I plot to get what I want
  • And end up in prison.
  • I dig pits to trap others
  • And fall in.
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  • I should be suspicious
  • Of what I want.
The Essential Rumi,. trans. by Coleman Barks and John Moyne. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1995.