Dance of the Atoms: Wake up Sun! (Rumi)
Updated: Jul 1, 2023
Dance of the Atoms
Wake up Sun!
All the atoms in heavens and earth
are dancing, dancing, dancing
Drunken swirls of star light
dance in Love’s mad ecstasy.
Wake up Sun!
All of your lovers are dancing!
dancing, dancing in helpless yearning and frenzied desire.
They’re dying to dance in their own agony and joy.
Wake up Sun!
All the souls, of the living and the dead,
are dancing, dancing, dancing.
Where is this wild dancing taking them?
Come closer and I’ll tell you a secret:
These dancers: They’re all crazy and they know it!
They’ve fallen in love with you
and driven out of their minds
in the end they’ll destroy themselves
in the fire of your burning light.
I can’t say any more.
(Rumi, translated by Imam Bilal Hyde)
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