Poetry

[S.Parisan]

What Happens?

What happens when your soul
Begins to awaken
Your eyes
And your heart
And the cells of your body
To the great Journey of Love?

First there is wonderful laughter
And probably precious tears

And a hundred sweet promises
And those heroic vows
No one can ever keep.

But still God is delighted and amused
You once tried to be a saint.

What happens when your soul
Begins to awake in this world



From: 'I Heard God Laughing - Renderings of Hafiz' - Daniel Ladinsky

[Bita]

My Love, My Love


From the hollow sphere of space

Echo

of a lonely voice

That cries, my love, my love

I do not know whether I spoke or heard

The word

That fills all silence.