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THE BREEZE AT DAWN

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.

Don’t go back to sleep.

You must ask for what you really want.

Don’t go back to sleep.

People are going back & forth across the door sill where the two worlds touch.

The door is round & open.

Don’t go back to sleep.

…by Rumi

“The Essential Rumi”

New Expanded Edition

Translation by Coleman Barks

Harper Collins, 2004, p. 36