What Love-Mischief
THE SEED CRACKED OPEN
It used to be
That when I would wake in the morning
I could with confidence say,
"What am 'I' going to
Do?"
That was before the seed
Cracked open.
Now Hafiz is certain:
There are two of us housed
In this body.
Doing the shopping together in the market and
Tickling each other
While fixing the evening's food.
Now when I awake
All the internal instruments play the same music:
"God , what love-mischief can 'We' do
For the world
Today?
—Hafiz, rendered by Daniel Ladinsky