#historians loves to tell us that this isn't gay meanwhile actively censor his gayest poetry.
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Reading some poetry by Rumi that he wrote to/about Shams… Remember, guys! All that gay stuff is just metaphors!
"I became his flute and started crying when his lips touched me. I was blindly searching for his hand while all the while he was holding mine."
Like I said… It's just a metaphor for friendship!
#Btw this is just one line of a very long poem#historians loves to tell us that this isn't gay meanwhile actively censor his gayest poetry.#seriously the first english translation of his most homoerotic poems was published in 2006!#Everyone knew they existed they just didnt translate it#rumi#shams tabrizi#persian poetry#ancient queer history
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