Poems by Rumi

Looking For Your Face

Looking For Your Face

From the beginning of my life,

I have been looking for your face,

but today I have seen it.

Today I have seen the charm, the beauty,

the unfathomable grace of the face,

that I was looking for.

Today I have found you,

and those that laughed,

and scorned me yesterday,

are sorry that they were not looking as I did.

I am bewildered by the magnificence

of your beauty

and wish to see you with a hundred eyes.

My heart has burned with passion,

and has searched forever,

for this wondrous beauty,

that I now behold.

I am ashamed,

to call this love human,

and afraid of God,

to call it divine.

Your fragrant breath,

like the morning breeze,

has come to the stillness of the garden,

You have breathed new life into me,

I have become your sunshine,

and also your shadow.

My soul is screaming in ecstasy

Every fiber of my being

is in love with you

Your effulgencehas lit a fire in my heart,

and you have made radiant for me,

the earth and sky.

My arrow of love,

has arrived at the target,

I am in the house of mercy,

and my heart,

is a place of prayer.