Imagined Amends involving Vocational Creativity and Misdeeds
“Three companions for you: Number one,
–Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi in Nicholson, Mathnawi, Book V, 1026-1050; Translation by John Moyne and Coleman Barks, Open Secret: Versions of Rumi (Shambhala 1984/99); “Why Organize a Universe This Way?”
what you own. He won’t even leave the house
for some danger you might be in. He stays inside.
Number two, your good friend. He at least comes to the funeral.
He stands and talks at the gravesite. No further.
The companion, what you do, your work,
that goes down into death to be there with you,
to help. Take deep refuge with that companion, beforehand.”
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