On Desire
Rumi writes: “I do not chant this spell out of desire, for I have turned desire on its head. And God forbid I want something from others. There is a world of peace in my heart.”
I encountered this quote in the blaze of Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir, Awkwaeke Emezi’s latest offering of world-bending prose. In it, they reckon with the weight of de…