Lainesblog Thinking Out Loud

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.

                                                                                     Hafiz

Poem by Shams-ud-din Muhammad Hafiz (c.1320-1389), the most beloved poet of Persia,

 from the Penguin publication, Love Poems From God, Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West.

 Copyright © 2002 Daniel Ladinsky and used with his permission.

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