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Sometimes...

Sometimes I feel like a king,

sometimes I moan in my own prison.

Swaying between these states

I can't be proud of myself.

This "I" is a figment of my imagination.

- Rumi

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"Rumi - Whispers of the Beloved"
Selected and translated by
Azima Melita Kolin and Maryam Mafi
Thorsons, London 1999

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