Featured Poem: I Am and I Am Not

By Rumi

 

 

 

I’m drenched
in the flood
which has yet to come

 

I’m tied up
in the prison
which has yet to exist

 

Not having played
the game of chess
I’m already the checkmate

 

Not having tasted
a single cup of your wine
I’m already drunk

 

Not having entered
the battlefield

 

I’m already wounded and slain

 

I no longer
know the difference
between image and reality

 

Like the shadow
I am

 

And

 

I am not

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