Arabic Culture: Bittersweet by Rumi

If...

if you don't have enough madness in you
go and rehabilitate yourself...

if you've lost a hundred times the chess game of this life
be prepared to lose one more...

Have you ever read something, which gave a new dimension to your life? Some book, or poem? I ´m not some great fan of literature, but there is someone who made me watch the poems in different way - Maestro Rumi.

Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Balkhī

1207 - 1273 A.D.

better known as Rumi, was a Persian poet and also a founder of sufism

and my favourite poet in the world!

I swear, I will give time for sufism, because, it is one very interesting part of arabic culture :D

Well, everyone has some favourites which are made by their favourite author and this is mine - Bittersweet

Bittersweet by Rumi

In my hallucination

I saw my Beloved´s flower garden

In my vertigo

In my dizziness

In my drunken haze

Whirling and dancig like a spinning wheel

I saw myslef as the Source of Existence

I was there in the beginning

And I was the spirit of love

now, I am sober

There is only the hangover

And a memory of love

And only the sorrow

I yearn for happiness

I ask for help

I want mercy

And my love says:

"Look at me and hear me,

because I am here, just for that."

I am your moon and your moonlight, too

I am your flower garden and your water, too

I have come all this way, eager for you

Without shoes or shawl

I want you to laugh

To kill all your worries

To love you

To nourish you

Oh sweet bitterness

I will soothe you and heal you

I will bring you roses

I, too have been covered with thorns ....

And, like a lightning from the clear heaven, I found this fan video :D Connection of Kingdom of Heaven and Rumi´s poem!!!! I´ve never seen better fanvideo than this! Enjoy....

It is voice of Madonna, she has sung this one poem of Rumi for CD with Rumi´s poems :D

I must say, the clips from movie, music, and poet made me cry for the first time I saw it...and then second time....and third.... :P Kingdom of Heaven is something very very special, very mystic, very emotional for me. I´m fanatic and I don´t have enought strenght to fight it.