TULIPS – messengers of light

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
Translated by Daniel Ladinsky

“Hopeless.”  That is what I overheard in my morning walk as a couple walked by me.  There was a tinge of despair in the voice of the person who uttered this word.  I felt a cloak of sadness settle over both of them as they continued in the opposite direction.  I was a passerby, yet their grief invited me to pause and fee...