THE WORLD COMPARED TO A WAX TOY

Once someone asked a dervish to portray
The nature of this world in which we stay.
He said: "This various world is like a toy-
A coloured palm-tree given to a boy,
But made of wax-now knead it in your fist,
And there's the wax of which its shape consist;
The lovely forms and colours are undone,
And what seemed many things is only one.
All things are one-there isn't any two;
It isn't me who speaks; it isn't you."

                                             ATTAR