Let Me be Mad

O incomparable Giver of life, cut reason loose at last!

Let it wander grey-eyed from vanity to vanity.

Shatter open my skull, pour in it the wine of madness!

Let me be mad, as You; mad with You, with us.

Beyond the sanity of fools is a burning desert

Where Your sun is whirling in every atom:

Beloved, drag me there, let me roast in Perfection!
O incomparabil Datator de viata, elibereaza-ma de ratiune in sfirsit!
Las-o sa rataceasca cu ochii verzi din vanitate in vanitate.
Crapa-mi teasta, toarna in ea vinul nebuniei!
Lasa-ma sa fiu nebun ca Tine;nebun cu Tine, cu noi.
De cealalta parte a intelepciunii nebunilor se afla un desert arzind
unde soarele Tau se invirte in interiorul fiecarui atom;
Preaiubitule tireste-ma pina acolo, lasa-ma sa ma prajesc in Perfectiune!

- Rumi

Posted in: rumi poetry,sufism