Offered by Marie McGuigan
Poem
The Breeze at Dawn
Rumi
Translated by Coleman Barks
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
Don’t go back to sleep.
You must ask for what you really want.
Don’t go back to sleep.
People are going back and forth across the doorsill
where the two worlds touch.
The door is round and open.
Don’t go back to sleep.
Reflection
The repetition of lines “Don’t go back to sleep” resonated. The phrases stay awake and stay aware came. My felt sense was not quite like braced more like a “waiting” something. “Where two worlds touch” resonated inside like that feeling of being on the cusp of something in that moment of moving from sleeping to wakening. I then felt a whole body sense of gratitude for this moment at this phase in my life, not having to get up immediately to move into urgency of the day. In closing the word “must” in line three felt like something needing to be done and the phrase this life is not a rehearsal came. I had a felt sense of something different more gentle inside now.
Marie Mc Guigan
August 2023
