<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">If wheat grows from my soil</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If wheat grows from my soil,</div><div class="">The bread you bake will make you drunk.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Both dough and baker are crazy.</div><div class="">The oven recites a drunken poem.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you visit my grave,</div><div class="">My tomb will make you dance.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Be sure to bring a tambourine.</div><div class="">Don’t be sad at God’s festival.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">My chin is shut, within the grave, asleep,</div><div class="">My mouth gnawing on bittersweet love.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you rip apart my shroud,</div><div class="">A drunken man will unravel your soul.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">From all sides, sounds of war and drunken harps,</div><div class="">Empty tasks become fruitful works.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">God created me from love’s wine.</div><div class="">I’m still that love even as death wears me down.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m the drunken man. My essence is the wine of love.</div><div class="">What do you expect from wine but drunkenness?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I will never rest until my soul flies</div><div class="">To the towering soul of Shams of Tabriz.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> - Jellaludin Rumi</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>(Translated by Brad Gooch and Maryam Mortaz)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""></div></div></body></html>