A Rumi-nation by Leo Hartshorn

Any movement or sound is a profession of faith, as the millstone grinding is explaining how it believes in the river!---Sufi mystic Jalaluddin Rumi


if Rumi is right
then what is my drumming?
is it a belief in rhythm
or the hands of joy
that play through my body?
is it faith in music of the ear
or music of the body in motion?

should I then write a creed
of the drum?
or a catechism of rhythm?
should I pray with tombak
and meditate with daf?
are the sounds of the drum
belief in the eternal rhythm
unseen, without sound
beating through the universe
and my singular heart
thump-thump
thump-thump
Amen.