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Sunday, August 05, 2007

I COBBLED THEIR BOOTS














How could I love my fellow men who tortured me?

One night I was dragged into a room
And beaten near death with
their shoes

striking me hundreds of times
in the face, scarring me
forever.

I cried out for God to help, until I fainted.

That night in a dream, in a dream more real than this world,
a strap from the Christ’s sandal
fell from my bleeding
mouth,

and I looked at Him and He
was weeping, and
spoke,

I cobbled their boots;
how sorry
I am.

What moves all things
is God.”

Rumi

Translation by: Daniel Ladinsky
Thanks to Duane Tucker
Poetry of the Soul

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