Peter Lucas Hulen

Kabir

Kabir
Don't go oustide your house to see flowers.
My friend, don't bother with that excursion.
Inside your body there are flowers.
One flower has a thousand petals.
That will do for a place to sit.
Sitting there you will have a glimpse of beauty
inside the body and out of it,
before gardens and after gardens.



Robert Bly, Tr., Kabir: Ecstatic Poems (Boston: Beacon Press, 2007)