Independent
Of this body is my mind
When the call from the Golden Nightingale
Lifts and pours my being throughout
The Sky.
Independent of this mind is my
Heart
When God unfurls even a shadow of His tress
Upon my bare shoulder.
Sovereign of my illumined heart
Is the indivisible knowledge
In the gaze of my spirit’s wings climbing to
Such a sublime height they each
Become the Sun
Itself
And reside – perched beyond every throne
Known to man.
Hafiz,
This Sufi path of love is so astoundingly
Glorious
That
One day each
Wayfarer upon it will become
The Inconceivable –
The Creator of God
Himself.
From ‘The Gift’ by Daniel Ladinsky.
Copyright © 1999 by Daniel Ladinsky. Reprinted by permission of the author.
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