IN A TREE HOUSE
Light
Will someday split you open
Even if your life is now a cage,
For a divine seed, the crown of destiny,
Is hidden and sown on an ancient, fertile plain
You hold the title to.
Love will surely bust you wide open
Into an unfettered, blooming new galaxy
Even if your mind is now
A spoiled mule.
A lifegiving radiance will come,
The Friend's gratuity will come—
O look again within yourself,
For I know you were once the elegant host
To all the marvels in creation.
From a sacred crevice in your body
A bow rises each night
And shoots your soul into God.
Behold the Beautiful Drunk Singing One
From the lunar vantage point of love.
He is conducting the affairs
Of the whole universe
While throwing wild parties
In a tree house—on a limb
In your heart.
~ Hafiz
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"In A Tree House" from The Subject Tonight is Love, Daniel Ladinsky, copyright 2003. www.danielladinsky.com. Printed with permission.
Awakening is inevitable
The first time I sat and reflected on this poem, I arrived at the conclusion of:
Take hope!
Which is nice. And comforting. And maybe understandable, given how we know that we get stuck in patterns of thinking.
But I think there’s a deeper message here; something that doesn’t rely on us clinging to the belief that ‘tomorrow will be better’ (something we’ve explored before).