O Treacherous Heart!

Lesson 320: O Treacherous Heart!

O treacherous heart! Don't do evil and reproach Him!
Don't make me known in the marketplace, don't tell my secrets.
For if you do, He will shatter these fragile chains
And forge fresh ones more terrible and strange.
Don't talk of "duality," don't speak of "two"—
We are one mouth, He and I one prayer, one glance,
One dancing fiery mountain of fragrance.

- Jalal-ud-Din Rumi

(Translated by Andrew Harvey from A Year of Rumi)