The Journey into Self

so many questions
on the path into the self
stones glint in the sun

Kim M. Russell, 2018

My response to Carpe Diem #1397 The Journey Into Your Own Depth

For this latest episode,  Chèvrefeuille has chosen another interesting poem by Rumi:

Then Journey Into Yourself

Oh, if a tree could wander
and move with foot and wings!
It would not suffer the axe blows
and not the pain of saws!
For would the sun not wander
away in every night ?
How could at every morning
the world be lighted up?
And if the ocean’s water
would not rise to the sky,
How would the plants be quickened
by streams and gentle rain?
The drop that left its homeland,
the sea, and then returned ?
It found an oyster waiting
and grew into a pearl.
Did Yusaf not leave his father,
in grief and tears and despair?
Did he not, by such a journey,
gain kingdom and fortune wide?
Did not the Prophet travel
to far Medina, friend?
And there he found a new kingdom
and ruled a hundred lands.
You lack a foot to travel?
Then journey into yourself!
And like a mine of rubies
receive the sunbeams?
Out of yourself ? such a journey
will lead you to yourself,
It leads to transformation
of dust into pure gold!

© Rumi