Show Your Beauty

Lesson 327: Show Your Beauty

Show Your Beauty, Moon of God,
So friends and enemies can witness it
With whitened faces and eyes dark with tears.
Grief and longing make all men groan:
"Save us from the agony this tyrant inflicts
Beautiful and terrible as a dragon!"
You have made grief's lute sing out
With the sharp and heavy sounds of your "Go away!"

- Jalal-ud-Din Rumi

(Translated by Andrew Harvey from A Year of Rumi)