In the middle of the darkness,a moon appeared with its brilliance.

Stepping down from the clouds, it glanced at me.

Like a falcon that hunts a bird and steals it away, it captured me and flew

back to infinite space.

As I looked for myself, I could not find me,

for my body had become all soul in the tenderness of Love.

The nine spheres of heaven dissolved in that moon as the ship of my existence 

drowned in the sea of Love.

—Rumi