When your truth forsakes its shyness,
When your fears surrender to your strength
You will begin to experience
That all existence
Is a teaming sea of Infinite life.

In a handful of ocean water
You could not count all the finely tuned
Musicians
Who are acting stoned
For very intelligent and sane reasons

And of course are becoming extremely sweet
And wild.

In a handful of the sky and earth,
In a handful of God,

We cannot count
All the ecstatic lovers who are dancing there
Behind the mysterious veil.

True art reveals there is no void
Or darkness.

There is no loneliness to the clear-eyed mystic
In this luminous, brimming
Playful world.

HAFIZ

The Subject Tonight Is Love
60 Wild and Sweet Poems of Hafiz
Versions by Daniel Ladinsky