“…make me hungry enough…”
January 12, 2008
“…make me hungry enough so a crust of millet bread
will taste like fine pastry. this is all one prayer: give me
the same longing that drives a wild madman-lover out
to look for what cannot be found.
that naked need lives in me as a certainty where i know
that whatever i’ve done wrong is covered
by the larger compassion we move inside.
that is the meaning of Allahu Akbar.”
–Bahauddin, father of Rumi
don’t tell me everything
what little i know is enough
to keep me spinning spindly stories
from the damp parts of air.
don’t keep
anything from me
because everything you utter
is sweet
give me the same longing
that arrives with this loneliness
–oneness–
that keeps God close.
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