Rumi: “Do You Think I Know What I Am Doing?”

Do you think I know what I’m doing?

That for one breath or half-breath I belong to myself?

As much as a pen knows what it’s writing.

Or the ball can guess where it’s going next.

— Rumi

From Open Secret: Versions of Rumi by John Moyne

 

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Jelaluddin Rumi (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273), was a 13th-century Persian poet, jurist, theologian, and Sufi mystic.  (Biographical information and picture are from Wikepedia)