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You've had your fill, not me. What's the remedy?

Who can take your place, the place of life's own source?

'Just wait,' you say, 'Have faith, you'll have your due.'

I slave for faith! What faith is there but you?

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

Translated by Zara Houshmand
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