Everything is My Beloved

Ahhh, a 51 degree Tahoe Sunday, and I'm once again out in the winter garden, sitting with the feathered friends, writing, brush stroking and absorbing this sweet day. Then, as warmth and light tend to do, the seed cracked open -- and Hafiz, found me....

Today
by Hafiz

I

Do not

Want to step so quickly

Over a beautiful line in God's palm

As I move through the earth's

Marketplace

Today.

I do not want to touch any object in this world

Without my eyes testifying to the truth

That everything is 

My Beloved.

Something has happened

To my understanding of existence

That now makes my heart always full of wonder

And kindness.

I do not

Want to step so quickly

Over this sacred place on God's body

That is right beneath your 

Own foot

As I 

Dance with 

Precious life 

Today.