What's not here

an invitation to silence

What’s Not Here
by Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī.

I started out on this road, call it
love or emptiness. I only know what’s

not here: resentment seeds, back-
scratching greed, worrying about out-

outcome, fear of people. When a bird gets
free, it doesn’t go back for remnant

left on the bottom of the cage! Close
by, I’m rain. Far off, a cloud of fire.

I seem restless…