Poetry by Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī. 

I drank from the water of life,

And all disease vanished

I entered the garden of union

And I felt no thorns

They say there is a doorway

From heart to heart

But what is the use of a door

When there are no walls?

The king who stole my heart

Sent me a message on a butterfly

It said, “I am yours.”

And a hundred candles burst into flame.

The texts depict a profound depth of intimacy, celebrating a passionate, cleansing oneness, where one's self is absorbed into relationship with the divine and the veil that delineates self or otherness is abandoned. This culminates in an ecstatic dance in The King Who Stole My Heart. This pairing of pieces were originally intended to be performed as a complete set, but they could also be performed independently or fused with other related programming.