You have been invited to meet
The Friend.
No one can resist a Divine Invitation.
That narrows down all our choices
to just two:
we can come to God
dressed for Dancing
or
be carried on a stretcher
to God’s Ward.
Hafiz
trans. Daniel Ladinsky
Posted in The Daily Poems, tagged Daniel Ladinsky, Divine Invitation, Hafiz on March 28, 2017| Leave a Comment »
You have been invited to meet
The Friend.
No one can resist a Divine Invitation.
That narrows down all our choices
to just two:
we can come to God
dressed for Dancing
or
be carried on a stretcher
to God’s Ward.
Hafiz
trans. Daniel Ladinsky