Have no fear, he is within you

Even in the valley of your night,

You have fallen, but don’t lose heart,

For the Lord has faith in you.

As the pupil in your eye

knows not itself but in the mirror,

The time will come

When, with elation,

You will greet yourself arriving

At your own door, in your own mirror,

And each will smile at the other’s welcome,

And say, sit here, Eat.

You will love again the stranger who was your self.

Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart

To itself, to the stranger who has loved you

All your life, whom you ignored

For another, who knows you by heart.

Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

The photographs, the desperate notes,

Peel your image from the mirror.

Sit. Feast on your life.

Hafiz wants to change a lot of things.
He wants to change, for example,
the way that we think of the world
as a courtroom,
as if there were some guilty people,
some judges and some bailiffs,
court stenographers and some witnesses.
He says: “All that is gone, it’s over;
this is no longer a courtroom we’re living in.
We’re living now in a “caravan”-