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If You Show Patience

If you show patience, I'll rid you of this virtue.
If you fall asleep, I'll rub the sleep from your eyes.
If you become a mountain, I'll melt you in fire.
And if you become an ocean, I'll drink all your water.

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Excerpt from Rumi, 'Thief of Sleep' translated by by Shahram Shiva

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  • ladylyric
    January 20, 2005
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    Need he go on? One of his shorter ones, but filled with just as much meaning!