Peter Lucas Hulen

Hafiz

Hafiz

THE SUN NEVER SAYS

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.




Daniel Ladinsky, Tr.,
The Gift: poems by Hafiz the great Sufi master
(New York: Penguin, 1999)