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Wisdom from Hafiz of Shiraz

By Kim Nelson, on March 3rd, 2010%

~ The Sun Never Says~

I’ve encountered this poem (found on page 34 of The Gift: Poems by Hafiz, The Great Sufi Master, Penguin Compass, 1999) three times in the past week. It must be asking me to listen and then share.

“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

Sky.”

 

If we each practiced loving this way, imagine the light we’d create. 

Brings so much to mind… creation, “I am the light…”

Brilliance!

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Heartache

By Kim Nelson, on March 2nd, 2010%

Regarding LOVE. Words from Wikipedia:

“Studies have shown that brain scans of those infatuated by love display a resemblance to those with a mental illness. Love creates activity in the same area of the brain where hunger, thirst, and drug cravings create activity. New love, therefore, could possibly be more physical than emotional.”

Ha!

That explains it.

The Heartache.

Did we not break through?

To intimacy?

I loved you.

Crazy love, mad love, heart-racing glad love.

Smiling at the thought of you.

Butterflies when a text came through.

Sweet goodnights, raucous hellos,

Attraction, passion, bedfellows.

Reckless abandon, a jangle of words.

And limbs

And whims

And nerves.

Fear stepped in.

The end.

I loved you.

I thought you loved me too.

Was it true?

…

Coward!

Inspired by Three Word Wednesday…Heartache, Jangle, Reckless

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