"Say I Am You"

The Poetry Of "Jalaluddin Rumi"

The below is a note from YouTuber "rahmama2"  


The music: The credits do appear at the end of this video, but it is by the composer, Eleni Karaindrou, and is the theme music called "Eternity and a Day" from the movie, Aggelopoulos.

A note on the music: This entire video was constructed in silence-only the poem and the images were put together without my knowing what music would be the right one. The music is so important to the interpretation of these poems. Rather than reading them, the music is my voice. When I 'laid' this beautiful piece of music over the video it fit perfectly. Few edits were made to accomodate the images to fit the music. They seem to be made for each other.




I am dust particles in sunlight.
I am the round sun.


To the bits of dust I say, Stay.
To the sun, Keep moving.


I am morning mist,
and the breathing of evening.
I am wind in the top of a grove,
and surf on the cliff.


Mast, rudder, helmsman, and keel,
I am also the coral reef they founder on.


I am a tree with a trained parrot in its branches.
Silence, thought, and voice.


The musical air coming through a flute,
a spark of stone, a flickering in metal.
Both candle and the moth crazy around it.
Rose, and the nightingale lost in the fragrance.


I am all orders of being, the circling galaxy,
the evolutionary intelligence, the lift, and the falling away.


What is, and what isn't.


You who know, Jelaluddin,
You the one in all, say who I am.
Say I am you.


Your embrace some form
saying, "I am this."


By God, you are not this
or that or the other


you are "Unique One"
"Heart-ravishing"