Rumi for Monday

Today, Like Every Other Day

-Rumi

Today, like every other day, we wake up empty

and frightened. Don't open the door to the study

and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.

Let the beauty we love be what we do.

There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

-Translated by Coleman Barks
-Photo by Paul Clancy for Smoke and Pickles