Hush Don't Say Anything to God: Passionate Poems of Rumi

1. CRADLE MY HEART {{{ Rumi }}}

2. Last night,

3. I was lying on the rooftop,

4. thinking of you.

5. I saw a special Star,

6. and summoned her to take you a message.

7. I prostrated myself to the Star

8. and asked her to take my prostration

9. to that Sun of Tabriz.

10. So that with his light, he can turn

11. my dark stones into gold.

12. I opened my chest and showed her my scars,

13. I told her to bring me news

14. of my bloodthirsty Lover.

15. As I waited,

16. I paced back and forth,

17. until the child of my heart became quiet.

18. The child slept, as if I were rocking his cradle.

19. Oh Beloved, give milk to the infant of the heart,

20. and don't hold us from our turning.

21. You have cared for hundreds,

22. don't let it stop with me now.

23. At the end, the town of unity is the place for the heart.

24. Why do you keep this bewildered heart

25. in the town of dissolution?

26. I have gone speechless, but to rid myself

27. of this dry mood,

28. oh Saaqhi, pass the narcissus of the wine.

29. Hush Don't Say Anything to God: Passionate Poems of Rumi Translated by Shahram Shiva