Sunbeams by Hafiz

Even

after

all this time

the sun never says to the earth

"you owe me"

look what happens

with a love like that --

it lights the whole

world.

— Sunbeams, Hafiz

Change rooms in your mind for a day.

Shiva's Om
Original Artwork by Teal Marie Chimblo

All the Hemispheres

Leave the familiar for a while.

Let your senses and bodies stretch out

Like a welcomed season

Onto the meadows and shores and hills.

Open up to the Roof.

Make a new water-mark on your excitement

And love.

Like a blooming night flower,

Bestow your vital fragrance of happiness

And giving

Upon our intimate assembly.

Change rooms in your mind for a day.

All the hemispheres in existence

Lie beside an equator

In your heart.

Greet Yourself

In your thousand other forms

As you mount the hidden tide and travel

Back home.

All the hemispheres in heaven

Are sitting around a fire

Chatting

While stitching themselves together

Into the Great Circle inside of

You.

– Hafiz

From: 'The Subject Tonight is Love'

Translated by Daniel Ladinsky