The Waterwheel, by Jalaluddin Rumi
The Waterwheel Stay together, friends. Don’t scatter and sleep. Our friendship is made of being awake. The waterwheel accepts water and turns and gives it away, weeping. That way it stays in the garden, whereas another roundness rolls through a dry riverbed looking for what it thinks it wants. Stay here, quivering with each moment like a drop of mercury. by Jalaluddin Rumi, from The Essential Rumi: New Expanded Edition, translated from the Persian by Coleman Barks, 2004