All Upside Down (5/12/2024)

All Upside Down (5/12/2024)

O cloud, you are from the universe of the suns.

The thing you do now is all upside down.

Know well that by covering our world in darkness,

you are oppressing us.

It is for mortals like us to cry.

Instead, you are crying for us.

Rubailer (2016), Rubai 2, page 427.

The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translations (apprx.pub.2024), Rubai 1117, Volume 3.