Wednesday, December 17, 2014

#Adventword Day 18: Become

No End to the Journey by Rumi (trans. by Robert Bly)
No end, no end to the journey
no end, no end never
how can the heart in love
ever stop opening
if you love me,
you won't just die once
in every moment
you will die into me
to be reborn

Into this new love, die
your way begins
on the other side
become the sky
take an axe to the prison wall,
escape
walk out like someone
suddenly born into color
do it now


This picture was taken in Lebanon at the famous cedar trees,which have been decimated by deforestation. So few trees are left standing that when one dies, artists carve the dead wood into religious icons and leave them standing among the living trees.

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