<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=458866" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>If I weep</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">If I weep, if I come with excuses, my beloved puts cotton wool in his ears.<br>Every cruelty which he commits becomes him, every cruelty which he commits I endure.<br>If he accounts me nonexistent, I account his tyranny generosity.<br>The cure of the ache of my heart is the ache for him; how shall I not surrender my heart to his ache?<br>Only then are glory and respect mine, when his glorious love renders me contemptible.<br>Only then does the vine of my body become wine, when the wine-presser stamps on me and spurns me underfoot.<br>I yield my soul like grapes under the trampling, that my secret heart may make merry,<br>Though the grapes weep only blood, for I am vexed with this cruelty and tyranny.<br>He who pounds upon me puts cotton wool in his ears saying, “I do not press unwittingly.<br>If you disbelieve, you are excusable, but I am the Abu’l Hikam [the expert] in this affair. <br>When you burst under the labor of my feet, then you will render much thanks to me.”</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rumi">Rumi</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=458866" data-title="If I weep de Rumi" data-description="If I weep, if I come with excuses, my beloved puts cotton wool in his ears. Every cruelty which he commits becomes him, every cruelty which he commits I endure. If he accounts me nonexistent, I account his tyranny generosity. The cure of the ache ..."></div> </div> </div>

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