Split The Sack | Rumi Poem
by Wood
This poem by Rumi calls us to wake up from our everyday routines. It asks why we stay stuck, like a fish out of water, when we long to return to our natural state. We often gather scraps, memories, shallow distractions, like children pretending they are valuable. The poem hints that we need to break out of these old patterns, step away from what we have always known, and in doing so, we become open to a clear inner truth, our deeper wisdom and purpose that has been waiting quietly inside us all along. Mawlana Jalaluddin Mohammad Balkhi, popularly known as "Rumi", is a 13th-century Sufi poet. Today, he is recognised as one of the greatest poets who ever lived, due in part to how his words seem to speak to the divine. Photo by Elijah Pilchard. Translation by Coleman Barks.
