Reach out

Reach out for the world

through every sense

Colours, music, sex,

wine and incense

The five ladders on

which a man attains

The heights of pleasure

and sensual planes

The innser senses,

hidden in the hearth

Will carry man
to those planes apart

Yet on that journey
expect suffering

And pain that very
ecstasy may bring

To the body while
enriching the soul

And thus enriching
make the body whole

Rumi