Rumi

“We are the mirror as well as the face in it.
We are tasting the taste this minute
of eternity. We are pain
and what cures pain, both. We are
the sweet cold water and the jar that pours.

I want to hold you close like a lute,
So we can cry out with loving.

You would rather throw stones at a mirror?
I am a mirror, and here are the stones.”