Inescapable

I would away fly, but why dream All I would leave I keep to scream The world is only me And only I through the world stream The farthest star is my extreme Even more I'm lonely It was so for God, then he spoke Sundered now in three: no revoke Adam imaged that pain Could not utter what did provoke The inner urge that longings stoke Yet woke without complain I too a longing bear in me Something deep, fast like gravity My weighted whole desires Self trapped in its own sweet beauty Through love to find infinity When self from want retires by David Smalling for RUMI IN RIME COUEE "Do not feel lonely the universe is inside of you"