WAKE UP!

Poem For Today - September 12, 2014

QUATRAIN

I became water
     and saw myself
          a mirage
became an ocean
     saw myself a speck
          of foam
gained Awareness
     saw that all is but
          forgetfulness
woke up
     and found myself
          asleep.

(c) Binavi Bvadakhshani, 

page 95 in The Drunken

Universe, An Anthology

of Persian Sufi Poetry