Culture
Rumi: Haven’t I Told You?
By Jalal Eddin el Rumi (1207-1273)
Translated by Tatul Sonentz
Haven’t I told you
not to go there,
since I am your family – me,
the only fountain of vivacity
in this ephemeral world?
And even if you managed, in a rage,
to cover a hundred thousand years’ range
away from me towards eternity,
I shall still be your point of return,
for I am your destiny.
Haven’t I told you
not to be
mollified by mundane designs,
for I
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Artur Kalendjian inspired me to imagine my helping harvest his many generationed brilliance in art and metal work into the world of industrial design and fabrication. In so doing I keep bumping into Rumi’s Beloved.