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You think that I am at my own command?

Or that I breathe one breath, one half a breath, at will?

I'm merely a pen in my writer,s hand,

A ball at the mercy of my player's skill.

#1359: From Rumi's Kolliyaat-e Shams-e Tabrizi
Edited by Badiozzaman Forouzanfar (Tehran, Amir Kabir, 1988).

Translated by Zara Houshmand
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