Yesterday morning as the sun came up Lee and Julie were reciting poetry as we walked. One of poets that was quoted was Shams al-Din Hafiz 1320 – 1389. The following poem is quite relevant.

All the Hemispheres

Leave the familiar for a while.
Let your senses and bodies stretch out.

Like a welcomed season
Onto the meadow and shores and hills.

Open up to the Roof.
Make a new watermark on your excitement and love.

Like a blooming night flower,
Bestow your vital fragrance of happiness and giving upon our intimate assembly.

Change rooms in your mind for a day.

All the hemispheres in existence
Lie beside an equator
In your heart.

Greet Yourself In your thousand other forms
As you mount the hidden tide and travel back home.

All the hemispheres in heaven
Are sitting around a fire chatting

While stitching themselves together
Into the Great Circle inside of You