Come, Come, Whoever You Are

Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 1207 (Balkh) – 1273 (Konya )



Wonderer, worshipper, lover of leaving.
It doesn't matter.
Ours is not a caravan of despair.
Come, even if you have broken your vow

a thousand times
Come, yet again, come, come.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on May 02, 2023

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Scheme XXXX XX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 180
Words 33
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 2

Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi

Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī also known as Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī, and more popularly simply as Rumi, was a 13th-century Persian poet, faqih, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic originally from Greater Khorasan in Greater Iran. more…

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