but I want more convincing proof.
Do not arrive and say, Now I am here.
Our closeness is not like that.
I am a support column in your house,
a waterspout on your roof.
I share with you the secrets
that others will tell on their last day.
This is no ordinary friendship.
I attend your banquet as wine is passed around the table.
Like lightning, I am an expert at dying.
Like lightning, this beauty has no language.
It makes no difference whether I win or lose.
You sit with us in a congregation of the dead,
where one handful of dirt says, I was once a head of hair.
Another, I was a backbone.
You say nothing.
Love comes in saying,
I can deliver you from yourself in this moment.
Now my lover and beloved grow quiet.
My mouth is burning with sweetness.
[Rumi {Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī} {1207-1273} 'No Ordinary Friendship', from Rumi: The Big Red Book]
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