Rumi Love Poem "You Found Me"
               You Found Me — Blog Post                        You Found Me        translated by Haleh Liza Gafori                 You found me once again, you thief of hearts. In drunken ecstasy, you searched the bazaar and found me. Even through sleepy-lidded, love-drunk eyes, you spotted me. I ran to the tavern. You found me. Why do I run when no one can escape you? Why hide when you’ve found me a hundred times? I thought I could lose you in a crowd of people. But you find me even in crowds of secrets, even behind my own masks. What a blessing to be sought and found by your eyes. What luck to be caught in your twists and turns— loving seer, persistent seer, towering cypress of countless gardens, I was pulling a thorn from my foot when you found me. You showered me with flowers from your fertile beds. Dear nightingale, your melodies opened my ears. Like a ladle wanting its fill of light, I plunged into the moon’s halo. At the bottom of that bottomless pot, you found me. Like a de...