A Year With Rumi: Day 3- Children Running Through Review

The poem is divided into four stanzas and they follow a pattern of past and present. In the first two stanzas, the first line is past and the second line present. The last two stanzas don't follow the pattern line wise like the first two. They are instead connected, the third stanza is past and the last one is present.

The pattern of this past and present seem to me that the poet is talking about the changes that are brought into his life. Knowing Rumi and the subject he ruminates of the changes is brought in narrator because of the love for god. The shy narrator has started sing, his silence has turned into demand for more wines and instead of praying old way he has started seeing prayers in the play of children and the face they make at me.

The changes seem little weird as they represent something that the society as always labelled bad. But I feel this is way of Rumi challenging the stereotype of society and the rules society imposed on man. To him, god is present everywhere and there is no right and wrong way to be his devotee. Whether you are shy or not, whether you drink or not and whether you use the old way to pray or decide to be with community while doing so, you can pray in whichever way you want.

About A Year With Rumi Series: I have heard a lot about Rumi and how his writing emancipate truths about life and elements associated to it. I have now embarked on journey to read him via a collection of his work A Year With Rumi. While I embark on this journey, I am starting to record how I decipher his work on this series. I will read a piece each day and write about that piece here. Join me in this year long journey and feel free to enlighten me with your wisdom too as we are to experience the Rumi's work differently in different context.