The Benediction of Hafiz

Hafiz says:

    

 I 

Have 

Learned 

So much from God 

 That I can no longer 

Call 

Myself

     A Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim,

     A Buddhist, a Jew. 

(Translation Daniel Ladinsky)

I say:

    Listen to the great teachers! They are the flutes, and God is the air.

    God speaks through their music-- their truths dance in eternity.

    Their poems nourish my soul,

    offer to me a benediction.  

    I bow in reverence as words like blessings

    fall upon my naked head.