All The Hemispheres


Leave the familiar for a while.

Let your senses and bodies stretch out


Like a welcome season

Onto the meadow and shores and hills.


Open up to the Roof.

Make a new watermark on your excitement

And love.


Like a blooming night flower,

Bestow your vital fragrance of happiness

And giving

Upon our intimate assembly.


Change rooms in your mind for a day.


All the hemispheres  in existence

Lie beneath an equator

In your heart.


Greet yourself

In your thousand other forms

As you mount the hidden tide and travel

Back home.


All the hemispheres in heaven

Are sitting around a fire

Chatting


While stitching themselves together

Into the Great Circle inside of

You.


--Hafiz

Hafiz