2012.04.10 01:00 - Light

One Song
-Rumi

Every war and every conflict between human beings 
has happened because of some disagreement about names.

It is such an unnecessary foolishness, 
because just beyond the arguing 
there is a long table of companionship 
set and waiting for us to sit down.

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 a little 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 are pouring them back in.