Wings of Desire

Wings of Desire:

People are distracted by objects of desire,
and afterwards repent of the lust they've 
indulged,
because they have indulged with a phantom
and are left even farther from Reality 
then before. 
Your desire for the illusory is a wing,
by means of which a seeker might 
ascend to Reality.
When you have indulged a lust, your
wing drops off ;
you become lame and that fantasy flees.
Preserve the wing and don't indulge 
such lust,
so that the wing of desire may bear you
to Paradise. 
People fancy they are enjoying
themselves, 
but they are really tearing out 
their wings
for the sake of an illusion. 

Short review from me, here: https://feliciareviewsbooks.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-pocket-rumi-by-rumi-edited-by-kabir.html

- F