SHE RESPONDED
The birds' favorite songs
You do not hear,
You do not hear,
For their most flamboyant music
takes place
When their wings are stretched
Above the trees
When their wings are stretched
Above the trees
And they are smoking the
opium
Of pure freedom.
Of pure freedom.
It is healthy for the
prisoner
To have faith
To have faith
That one day he will again move
about
Wherever he wants,
Feel the wondrous grit of life -
Less structured,
Wherever he wants,
Feel the wondrous grit of life -
Less structured,
Find all wounds, debts stamped
canceled,
Paid.
Paid.
I once asked a bird,
"How is it that you fly in this gravity
Of darkness?"
"How is it that you fly in this gravity
Of darkness?"
She responded,
"Love lifts
Me."
Me."
~ Hafiz ~
(The Gift -- versions of Hafiz by Daniel Ladinsky)
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