Embrace death, embrace death,
in this love, death embrace
in this love as death's embraced
all shall live receiving life
Accept death, accepting
Not fearing
Arise above the dust
And rise unto heaven
In death severe the self
That binds your self to yourself
Yourself enslaved, enchained
Take the axe and unchain
Shatter the cell, free that King
Beauteous king, that in death lives
in us all, as kings live
To die then is to descend
And cast away the cloud
From that luminous moon
Be silent, in silence
Does death descend and we
Embrace life, in silence.
This poem from Rumi has been translated by
several others. Persian text is online here.
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