On A Day When The Wind Is Perfect
Sun Through Heavy Fog
On A Day When The Wind Is Perfect
by Rumi
as translated by Daniel Ladinsky
On a day
when the wind is perfect,
the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty.
Today is such a
day.
My eyes are like the sun that makes promises:
the promise of life
that it always
keeps
each morning.
The living heart gives to us as does that luminous sphere,
both caress the earth with great
tenderness.
There is a breeze that can enter the soul.
This love I know plays a drum. Arms move around me;
who can contain their self before my beauty?
Peace is wonderful,
but ecstatic dance is more fun, and less narcissistic;
gregarious He makes our lips.
On a day when the wind is perfect,
the sail just needs to open
and the love starts.
Today is such
a day.
From Love Poems From God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and the West
© 2002 Daniel Ladinsky
