Sunday, February 6, 2011

without shield

Without Shield

Blood must flow,
He said,
for the rose garden
to flower,
and the heart that
loves me
is a wound
without shield.

- Jalal-ud-Din Rumi

(psst - I think the rose garden was doing just fine without the blood-letting. But I am most definitely a heart without shield.)

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