Saturday, August 25, 2012

It Felt Love


How

Did the rose

Ever open its heart

And give to this world

All its

Beauty?

It felt the encouragement of light

Against its

Being,

Otherwise,

We all remain

Too

Frightened.

-Hafiz, c. 1320 to 1389, a beautiful, mystic, Sufi poet from Persia

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