Helping the dawn appear

 

Helping the Dawn Appear

Strange the way my shadow began to fall. I

was standing in a field helping the dawn

appear, and when its body, the sun, was fully

lifted into the sky

I was amazed to see my shadow in front of 

me as I faced that luminous candle we all know.

I turned around in amazement, wondering

what could possibly be there;

it was the soul, our soul helping God to find

new horizons.

Strange to some, but not to love evolved, no

longer any shadow... I now cast.

-- Hafiz, from Ladinsky's A Year with Hafiz