may your heart fly ...

 

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The lily-perfumed wings of love
Will lay the dust of all your grief.
Patience my heart, and struggle on.

For when love binds,

It binds you to the tyranny of a racing steed,

And when love scatters,

It flings the soul-like fragments of the stars

Out of the ambergris scented woods.

Love makes of each moment an eternity

And tends the garden of the heart's desire.

When love mocks, ruby tears fall heavy as pomegranates

And when love looks, it sees your deepest mystery.

Love seeks out the tears of hidden hearts

And turns not from the Lovers of the Dawn.

Is there a remedy for the pain of love?

Or is it too unbearable for thought?

One taste of the medicine

And you will realize just how sick you have been.

Those who plead in the defense of love

In love's judgement shall find grace

And to that court, Hafiz

May your heart fly...


—Hafiz

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