Sometimes I Forget Completely

"Sometimes I forget completely

what companionship is

Unconscious and insane, I spill sad

energy everywhere. My story

gets told in various ways: a romance,

a dirty joke, a war, a vacancy.


Divide up my forgetfulness to any numbers,

it will go around.

These dark suggestions that I follow,

are they part of some plan?

Friends, be careful. Don't come near me

out of curiosity, or sympathy."

The Essential Rumi