This we have now

This we have now is not imagination.

This is not

grief or joy.

Not a judging state,

or an elation,

or sadness.

Those come

and go.

This is the presence

that doesn’t.

It's dawn, Husam,

here in the splendor of coral,

inside the Friend, the simple truth

of what Hallaj said.

What else could human beings want?

When grapes turn to wine,

they’re wanting

this.

When the nightsky pours by,

it’s really a crowd of beggars,

and they all want some of this!

This

that we are now

created the body, cell by cell,

like bees building a honeycomb.

The human body and the universe

grew from this, not this

from the universe and the human body. Rumi