Keeping Watch

In the morning
When I began to wake
It happened again

That feeling
That you, Beloved
Had stood over me all night
Keeping watch

That feeling
That soon as I began to stir

You put your lips on my forehead
And lit a holy lamp
Inside my heart

-- Hafiz

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I Have Come Into This World...

I have come into this world to see this:
the sword drop from men's hands even at the height
of their arc of anger because we have finally realized there is just one flesh to wound and it is His - the Christ's, our
Beloved's.

I have come into this world to see this: all creatures hold hands as
we pass through this miraculous existence we share on the way
to even a greater being of soul, a being of just ecstatic light, forever entwined and at play with Him.

I have come into this world to hear this:
every song the earth has sung since it was conceived in
the Divine's womb and began spinning from
His wish,

every song by wing and fin and hoof,
every song by hill and field and tree and woman and child,
every song of stream and rock,

every song of tool and lyre and flute,
every song of gold and emerald
and fire,

every song the heart should cry with magnificent dignity
to know itself as God:for all other knowledge will leave us again in want and aching-
only imbibing the glorious Sun will complete us.

I have come into this world to experience this:
men so true to love
they would rather die before speaking
an unkind word, men so true their lives are His covenant -
the promise of hope.

I have come into this world to see this:
the sword drop from men's hands
even at the height of their arc of rage
because we have finally realized
there is just one flesh we can wound.


Hafiz

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