That Lives In Us Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGAAHIJKLMDNONP JQIAA| If you put your hands on this oar with me | A |
| they will never harm another and they will come to find | B |
| they hold everything you want | C |
| If you put your hands on this oar with me they would no longer | D |
| lift anything to your | E |
| mouth that might wound your precious land | F |
| that sacred earth that is | G |
| your body | A |
| If you put your soul against this oar with me | A |
| the power that made the universe will enter your sinew | H |
| from a source not outside your limbs but from a holy realm | I |
| that lives in us | J |
| Exuberant is existence time a husk | K |
| When the moment cracks open ecstasy leaps out and devours space | L |
| love goes mad with the blessings like my words give | M |
| Why lay yourself on the torturer's rack of the past and future | D |
| The mind that tries to shape tomorrow beyond its capacities | N |
| will find no rest | O |
| Be kind to yourself dear to our innocent follies | N |
| Forget any sounds or touch you knew that did not help you dance | P |
| You will come to see that all evolves us | J |
| If you put your heart against the earth with me in serving | Q |
| every creature our Beloved will enter you from our sacred realm | I |
| and we will be we will be | A |
| so happy | A |
Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi
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