Poetry Thursday - Rumi Hope

Sorrow prepares you for joy. 

It violently sweeps everything 

out of your house, 

so that new joy 

can find space to enter. 

It shakes the yellow leaves 

from the bough of your heart, 

so that fresh, green leaves 

can grow in their place. 

It pulls up the rotten roots, 

so that new roots 

hidden beneath 

have room to grow. 

Whatever sorrow shakes 

from your heart, 

far better things 

will take their place.
~ Rumi