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.
Sunset at St. Augustine Beach, Florida.