31 Oct Forgiveness is Cash – Hafez

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Forgiveness

Is the cash you need.

 

All the other kinds of silver really buy

Just strange things.

 

But learn from those courageous addicted lovers

Of glands and opium and gold –

 

Look,

They cannot jump high or laugh long

When they are whirling.

 

And the moon and the stars become sad

When their tender light is used for

Night wars.

 

Forgiveness is part of the treasure you need

To craft your falcon wings

And return

 

To your true realm of

Divine freedom.

 

Excerpt from:

Hafez, (2003). The Subject Tonight Is Love, Translated by Daniel Ladinsky, Penguin Compass, (p. 3)