We are often in battle.
So often defending every side of the fort,
It may seem, all alone.
Sit down, my dear.
Take a few deep breaths,
Think about a loyal friend.
Where is your music,
Your pet, a brush?
Surely one who has lasted as long as you
Knows some avenue or place inside
That can give a sweet respite.
If you cannot slay your panic,
Then say within
As convincingly as you can,
“It is all God’s will!”
Now pick up your life again.
Let whatever is out there
Come charging in,
Laugh and spit into the air,
There could be holy fallout.
Throw those ladders like tiny match sticks
With “just” phantoms upon them
Who might be trying to scale your heart.
Your love has an eloquent tone.
The sky and I want to hear it!
If you still feel helpless
Give our battle cry again,
Hafiz
Has shouted it a myriad times,
“It is all,
It is all the Beloved’s will!”
What is that luminous rain I see
All around you in the future
Sweeping in from the east plain?
It looks like, O it looks like
Holy fallout
Filling your mouth and palms
With Joy!
Taken from The Gift:Poems by Hafiz. Translated by Daniel Ladinsky.
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What a beautiful poem! Thank you for sharing this wisdom filled moment with us.
This really was a gift, when I read this early this morning. Thank you, Miruh!
By surrendering, we detach from the external world and find God within. No longer are we a victim of perceptions. One then begins to notice that how we perceive the external relates to how we are feeling inside. We soon reach a balancing point, and we then realize that we don’t have to just feel that which is outside but to change our focal point inside. By shifting inner perception, then we encounter something totally new externally. We have changed disguises, and we are brand new in the Moment. The costume is then fully realized, and it evaporates from our form. What shall I try on today for size. Perhaps it will be the universe its self.
Hello Stacey.
I am glad you like it. I was looking for some inspiration from Hafiz and opened the book to this poem; just what I needed. I thought it appropriate for these times.
Deep peace to you!
Hello Marion,
Yes, it was a gift for me too. Such inspiration. We don’t have to fix the outside:
“Now pick up your life again.
Let whatever is out there
Come charging in…”
Deep peace to you!
Hello Bern,
Well said! To realize that we are not this form, to recognize that we are Consciousness sporting in its myriad manifestations, then there is nothing to accept or reject.
Thanks for sharing your wisdom and these beautiful words.
Deep peace to you!
A wonderful poem, filled with insights!
have you watched the rides, be it Roller coaster or Giant wheel that takes us up and down, remains so well rooted below. Its extended part does moves, but nothing shakes it. Thats life…
Thankyou Miruh!
Very very insightful and uplifting poem.I like it.Thanks for sharing.
God bless.
Hello Merging Point,
Great analogy about the Roller-coaster or Giant-wheel. And like them, life’s ups and downs can be perceived as a play.
Your clear insights are always refreshing. Thanks!
Namaste!
Hello Surjit,
I love the humor and beauty of Hafiz. Whenever I need inspiration, I turn to his poems.
I am glad you like it.
Deep peace to you!
When you choose to detach from any sense of conflict, then you begin to remember love is all there is. Self-acceptance is constant and perpetual. However, many people convince themselves to forget that temporarily as part of their process of inner growth.
Hello Liara,
I agree, “When you choose to detach from any sense of conflict, then you begin to remember love is all there is.”
To see that everything is there to ask us to open our hearts, that even this too is God, no matter what befalls us, is the play of consciousness that is this life.
Thanks for sharing your insights.
Deep peace to you!
There will be holy fallout
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