HOW LONG WILL YOU HIDE your beautiful festive smile teach your laughter to a flower manifest an eternity why do you think the door to the sky is closed on your face it allures and invites your magical touch to open and arrive an entire caravan is waiting in ecstasy for your coming and leading come on my friend use your talisman and harness all their souls today is the day to unite with your longing beloved wait no more for an unknown tomorrow a tambourine is in a corner begging your playing hands a flute is sitting dormant begging your happy lips RUMI, ghazal number 253, Translated April 13, 1992, by Nader Khalili