"Blue dawn" from Twisted Tree Photography
Today started early with Hacivad Bey, who crept up onto the windowsill above us in what the French refer to as “crepuscule“ or that ephemeral fleeting neon-turkuaz blue only found at dawn and dusk.
Leaning over the edge of the cream-colored wood, he whispered into our ears before we ever woke up – a poem -from Rumi…
“The Lovers
will drink wine night and day.
They will drink until they can
tear away the veils of intellect and
melt away the layers of shame and modesty.
When in Love,
body, mind, heart and soul don’t even exist.
Become this,
fall in Love, and you will not be separated again.”
Taking these words to heart, in some small protest of the commercialization of love and Saint Valentine’s Day, I hope you will celebrate what matters today with those you love!
Slowly-by-Slowly 
J and I have a mantra which she introduced me to:
Trust
Oh we’ve got to trust
one another again
in some essentials.
Not the narrow little
bargaining trust
that says: I’m for you
if you’ll be for me,
But a bigger trust,
a trust of the sun
that does not bother
about moth and rust,
and we see it shining
in one another.
Oh don’t you trust me,
don’t burden me
with your life and affairs; don’t
thrust me
into your cares.
But I think you may trust
the sun in me
that glows with just
as much glow as you see
in me, and no more.
But if it warms
your heart’s quick core
why then trust it, it forms
one faithfulness more.
And be, oh be
a sun to me,
not a weary, insistent
personality
but a sun that shines
and goes dark, but shines
again and entwines
with the sunshine in me
till we both of us
are more glorious
and more sunny.
D. H. Lawrence, 1885 – 1930
Thanks for the words. They will stay with me.
You are very welcome, Beth! For more inspiring words – check out Alan’s shared poem in the comment above!
Thank you, A., for sharing this. I have never read this poem – and it is already feeling sticky to my brain. I really love the imagery and of course the wisdom as well. Now I need to google around to see who D H Lawrence was writing about and what THEIR relationship was like.