Seeker After Truth

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Aug 31

Hafiz: I Have Come Into This World To See This

I have come into this world to see this:
the sword drop from men’s hands
even at the height
of their arc of
anger

because we have finally realizedthere is just
one flesh to wound and it is His -
the Christ’s, our
Beloved’s.

I have come into this world to see this:
all creatures hold hands as we pass through
this miraculous existence we share on the way
to even a greater being of soul,
a being of just ecstatic light,
forever entwined
and at play with
Him.

I have come into this world to hear this:
every song the earth has sung
since it was conceived in the
Divine’s womb and began
spinning from
His wish,

every song by wing and fin and hoof,
every song by hill and field and tree and woman and child,
every song of stream and rock,
every song of tool and lyre and flute,
every song of gold and emerald and fire,
every song the heart should cry with magnificent dignity
to know itself as God:

for all other knowledge will leave us again
in want and aching only imbibing
the glorious Sun will
complete us.

I have come into this world to experience this:
men so true to love they would rather
die before speaking
an unkind
word,

men so true their lives are His covenant the promise of hope.
I have come into this world to see this:
the sword drop from men’s hands
even at the height
of their arc of
rage

because we have finally realized
there is just one flesh
we can wound.