In a Tree House

- Poem by the Persian poet

Hafez (Khwajeh Shams Al-din Muhammad Hafez-e Shiraz) -

 

 

In a Tree House

 

Light

Will someday split you open

Even if your life is now a cage,

 

For a divine seed, the crown of destiny,

Is hidden and sown on an ancient, fertile plain

You hold the title to.

 

Love will surely bust you wide open

Into an unfettered, blooming new galaxy

 

Even if your mind is now

A spoiled mule.

 

A life-giving radiance will come,

The Friend’s gratuity will come –

 

O look again within yourself,

For I know you were once the elegant host

To all the marvels in creation.

 

From a sacred crevice in your body

A bow rises each night

And shoots your soul into God.

 

Behold the Beautiful Drunk Singing One

From the lunar vantage point of love.

 

He is conducting the affairs

of the whole universe

 

While throwing wild parties

In a tree house – on a limb

In your heart.

Done