#POEM Ask For What You Really Want

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This is so hard. But always so helpful. Thank you Coleman Barks for your beautiful Rumi translation. (page 36).

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.

Don’t go back to sleep.

You must ask for what you really want.

Don’t go back to sleep.

People are going back and forth across the doorsill

where the two worlds touch.

The door is round and open.

Don’t go back to sleep.
— The Essential Rumi