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When a Man and a Woman Become One

When a man and a woman become one,
that "one" is You.
And when that one is obliterated, there You are.

Where is this "we" and this "I"?
By the side of the Beloved.
You made this "we" and this "I"
in order that you might play
this game of courtship with Yourself,
that all "you's" and "I's" might become one soul
and finally drown in the Beloved...

Source: Jalaluddin Rumi, Mathnawi I (translated by Kabir Helminski), The Pocket Rumi Reader (Shambala, 2001)

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