DISSOLVE IN SUNLIGHT

This is how I would die into the love I have for you: 

as pieces of cloud dissolve in sunlight.

I hear nothing in my ear but your voice.

Heart has plundered mind of its eloquence.

Love writes a transparent calligraphy,

so on the empty page my soul can read and recollect.

Oh beloved, grant me this good fortune

that I may vanish inside your silence forever.

-Maulana Jelaluddin Rumi

translation by Coleman Barks