When you dance

Sunlight’s interpretation of Rumi’s Quatrain 784:
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When you dance
the whole universe dances.
What a wonder,
I’ve looked
and now I cannot look away!
Take me or do not take me,
both are the same –
As long as there is life in this body,
I am your servant.
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— Version by Jonathan Star and Shahram Shiva
A Garden Beyond Paradise
Bantam Books, 1992

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