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My soul is stubborn, drunken, and meddling;

My lover's is kind, but weary of waiting.

The messenger I send to her is God.

To me, a message from her is God's own word.

#1092: From Rumi's Kolliyaat-e Shams-e Tabrizi
Edited by Badiozzaman Forouzanfar (Tehran, Amir Kabir, 1988).

Translated by Zara Houshmand
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