heartsteps

Start seeing everything as God,
But keep it a secret.

Become like a man who is Awestruck
And Nourished

Listening to a Golden Nightingale
Sing in a beautiful foreign language
While God invisibly nests
Upon its tongue.

Hafiz,
Who can you tell in this world
That when a dog runs up to you
Wagging its ecstatic tail,
You lean down and whisper in its ear,

“Beloved,
I am so glad You are happy to see me.

Beloved,
I am so glad,
So very glad You have come.”

Hafiz

There is a dog I sometimes take for a walk
and turn loose in a field,

when I can’t give her that freedom,
I feel in debt.

I hope God thinks like that and
is keeping track of all
the bliss He
owes
me.

Rabia