End
One Song
by Rumi
translated by Coleman Barks
What is praised is one, so the praise is one too,
many jugs being poured
into a huge basin. All religions, all this singing,
one song.
The differences are just illusion and vanity. Sunlight
looks slightly different
on this wall than it does on that wall and a lot different
on this other one, but
it is still one light. We have borrowed these clothes, these
time-and-space personalities,
from a light, and when we praise, we pour them back in.
Coleman Barks reading “One Song” on
What Was Said to the Rose, 2004
Coleman Barks with Barry & Shelly Phillips
CD available from colemanbarks.com