We Are the Mirror

We are the mirror as well as the face in it.
We are tasting the taste this minute of eternity.
We are pain and what cures pain, both.
We are the sweet cold water
and the jar that pours.

I want to hold you close like a lute,
so we can cry out with loving.

You would rather throw stones at a mirror?
I am your mirror, and here are the stones.

– Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī
Excerpted from “We Are the Mirror, As Well as the Face in It.”
from Rumi: In the Arms of the Beloved
– Translations by Jonathan Star
Teacher/Putnam, 2000

See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• Saaxiib Qurux Badan – November 19, 2023
• October Afternoon
• Saaxiib Qurux Badan – October 1, 2023
• Aglow
• September Garden
• Like a Lotus Flower
• In the Stillness and Silence of This Present Moment
• Saaxiib Qurux Badan – June 4, 2023
• Saaxiib Qurux Badan – February 14, 2023
• Allow Everything to Rest Right Now
• Saaxiib Qurux Badan – January 16, 2023
• Saaxiib Qurux Badan – January 4, 2023
• Saaxiib Qurux Badan – August 25, 2022
• I Need Do Nothing . . . I Am Open to the Living Light
• When Sorrow Comes
• Saaxiib Qurux Badan – November 25, 2021
• The Beauty and Challenge of Being Present in the Moment
• A Sacred Pause
• Just One Wish
• Blue Yonder
• Saaxiib Qurux Badan – June 29, 2021
• What We Crave
• Skylight
• “So You Can Only See Beautiful Things”
• November Musings
• Saaxiib Qurux Badan – November 18, 2020
• Today I Will Be Still
• The Landscape Is a Mirror
• Adnan in Morning Light
• Somalia Bound
• My Love, “Return to the Root of the Root of Your Own Soul”
• Adnan . . . Amidst Mississippi Reflections and Forest Green
• Saaxiib Qurux Badan – April 16, 2019
• Adnan . . . With Sunset Reflections and Jet Trail
• Saaxiib Qurux Badan – March 29, 2019

Images: Saaxiib Qurux Badan (“Beautiful Friend”), St. Paul, MN – Michael J. Bayly (11/26/23).