A Waft of Perfume

"O God, who is without peer, show favor! Since you have bestowed on our ear this discourse as an ear-ring,
Take hold of our ear and draw us along to the assembly where the joyous assemblers drink of Your wine.
For as much as You have caused a waft of its perfume to reach us, do not stopple the mouth of that wine skin..
Whether they are male or female, all of Your creatures drink from Thee: O thou whose help is besought, You are limitless in giving.
O You, by whom the unspoken prayer is answered, who bestows, at every moment, a hundred bounties on the heart...
At each moment You shape beautiful, pictured forms of fantasy, subtle to every thought, on the page of non-existence.
On the tablet of fantasy, You inscribe wondrous letters: eye and profile and cheek and mole.
I am drunk with desire for what is beyond existence, not for the existent, because the Beloved of the world of non-existence is more faithful."

Rumi (Vol.5, 305-315)

Commentary: Our hearts (and souls) are being pulled by the One who answers our unspoken prayers...and sometimes God pulls us along by the ear...