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Arts & Culture > Poetry & Prose > I Heard God Laughing” ... Versions of Hafiz
 

I Heard God Laughing” ... Versions of Hafiz



A Golden
Compass

 

Forget every
idea of right and wrong
Any classroom ever taught you

 

Because
An
empty heart, a tormented mind,
Unkindness, jealousy and
fear

 

Are always the
testimony
You have been completely fooled!

 

Turn your back
on those
Who would imprison your wondrous spirit
With deceit and
lies.

 

Come, join the
honest company
Of the King’s beggars –
Those gamblers, scoundrels and
divine clowns
And those astonishing fair courtesans
Who need Divine Love
every night.

 

Come, join the
courageous
Who have no choice
But to bet their entire world
That
indeed,
Indeed, God is Real.

 

I will lead
you into the Circle
Of the Beloved’s cunning thieves,
Those playful royal
rogues –
The ones you can trust for true guidance –
Who can aid you
In
this Blessed Calamity of life.

 

Hafiz,
Look
at the Perfect One
At the Circle’s Center:

 

He Spins and
Whirls like a Golden Compass,
Beyond all that is
Rational,

 

To show this
dear world

 

That
Everything,
Everything in Existence
Does point to
God.

 

 

 

(“I
Heard God Laughing” –  by Daniel
Ladinsky)


posted on Feb 11, 2009 7:35 AM ()

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