Returning to the Source, Rumi

When light returns to its Source,
it takes nothing
of what it has illuminated.

It may have shone on a garbage dump, or a garden,
or in the center of a human eye. No matter.

It goes, and when it does,
the open plain becomes passionately desolate,
wanting it back.

Source: from "Dying, Laughing," in Delicious Laughter.
Selected from Inward/Outward, a project of the Church of the Saviour by Kayla McClurg.