My Response To Rumi
So many times I carried a monster inside me;
it kept on eating my joy away,
like an ember at the cigarette tip.
I was embarrassed to talk about my dark secrets,
afraid to sound like a shattering vase inside me.
"Everyone is broken, my child," a sage once told me.
"It's just that they don't talk about their brokenness"....
He told me that if I accepted I was broken and focused
on my healing, I would become as beautiful as a vase,
whose pieces were joined using liquid gold.
Date: 28/11/2016
"If you desire healing,
let yourself fall ill
let yourself fall ill."
- Jalaluddin Rumi
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