A lot to digest

There is a place
between knowing you are priceless
and at the same time recognizing
you are what is stepped over in a street
after a horse just left what they do 
in those pretty brown clumps
of useful organic matter.

Somewhere between those poles,
live if you can.
For anywhere else 
really won't suit you
or serve a special work
that comes to those
who have achieved real equilibrium,
a synchronistic balance with all,
all you have ever known.


This may sound like a lot to digest:
suns are waiting to emanate from your pores.
You will have to factor that in someday;I will help you.
There is a place between knowing you are priceless and...

-- Hafiz

from Daniel Ladinsky's A Year With Hafiz