The opening of Rumi's Mathnawi

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Listen to the story told by the reed, of being separated.

“Since I was cut from the reedbed, I have made this crying sound.

Anyone apart from someone he loves understands what I say.

Anyone pulled from a source longs to go back.

(Translated by Coleman Barks and John Moyne)