tag:gaia.com,2008,:Gaia http://groups.gaia.com/lovewords/discussions/feeds/thread/68590 en-us 1 Sun, 08 Oct 2006 16:52:03 GMT Gaia: Love, God & Spirituality in Music, Song and Words !!!! - JOYOUS, BLISSFUL, HAPPY LOVE - Awake awhile. # Herbie tag:gaia.com,2006:Gaia-68590 Sun, 08 Oct 2006 16:52:03 GMT http://groups.gaia.com/lovewords/conversations/view/68590 <p> <div style="text-align: center"><strong><img src="http://www.panhala.net/Archive/Awake%20Awhile.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="600" height="446" align="baseline" /></strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <br />Awake awhile.&nbsp;&nbsp; <br /><br />It does not have to be<br />Forever,<br />Right now.&nbsp;&nbsp; <br /><br />One step upon the Sky&#39;s soft skirt<br />Would be enough.&nbsp;&nbsp; <br /><br />Hafiz,<br />Awake awhile.<br />Just one True moment of Love<br />Will last for days.&nbsp;&nbsp; <br /><br />Rest all your elaborate plans and tactics<br />For Knowing Him,<br />For they are all just frozen spring buds<br />Far,<br />So far from Summer&#39;s Divine Gold.&nbsp;&nbsp; <br /><br />Awake, my dear.<br />Be kind to your sleeping heart.<br />Take it out into the vast fields of Light<br />And let it breathe.&nbsp;&nbsp; <br /><br />Say,<br />&quot;Love,<br />Give me back my wings.<br />Lift me,<br />Lift me nearer.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br /><br />Say to the sun and moon,<br />Say to our dear Friend,&nbsp;&nbsp;<br /><br />&quot;I will take You up now, Beloved,<br />On that wonderful Dance You promised.&quot;&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;<img src="http://www.un-museum.ru/vestnik/photo/child-dance.jpg" alt="" width="321" height="216" /> <br /><br />~ Hafiz ~&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br />(<em>I Heard God Laughing</em> <em>- Renderings of Hafiz</em> -- Daniel Ladinsky)&nbsp;&nbsp;</div> </p>