Two Poems by Rumi

When I am with you, we stay up all night.
When you’re not here, I can’t go to sleep.

Praise God for these two insomnias!
And the difference between them.

I would love to kiss you.
The price of kissing you is my life.

Now my loving is running toward my life shouting,
What a bargain, let’s buy it.

Translated by Coleman Barks