Rumi's The Waterwheel

Jalal Uddin Rumi
"The Waterwheel"
This poem speaks to the idea that life is like a waterwheel, constantly turning and renewing itself.
Stay together, friends.
Don't scatter and sleep.
Our friendship is made of being awake.
The waterwheel accepts water
and turns and gives it away,
weeping.
That way it stays in the garden,
whereas another roundness rolls through
a dry riverbed looking for what it thinks it wants.
Stay here, quivering with each moment
like a drop of mercury.