Hafiz translated by Robert Bly and Daniel Ladinsky

What we speak

 becomes the house

 we live in.

 Who will want

 to sleep in your bed

 if the roof leaks

 right above it?

 Fear is the

 cheapest room

 in the house,

 I would like

 to see you living

 in better conditions.

 There is only one reason

 we have followed God

 into this world:

 to encourage laughter,

 freedom,

 dance and love ....

 God and I are rushing

 from every corner of

 existence,

 needing to say

 we are yours.

 The sun never says

 to the earth,

 even after all this time

 “you owe me”.

 I once asked a bird

 how is it that you

 fly in this gravity

 of darkness?

 she responded,

 love lifts me.

 I should not make

 any promises right now

 but I know if you pray

 somewhere in this world

 something good

 will happen.

 ~ Hafiz

 Daniel Ladinsky and

 Robert Bly versions