Admit something

by Hafiz

Admit something

Everyone you see, you say to them

Love me.

Of course you do not do this out loud;

Otherwise,

Someone would call the cops.

Still though, think about this,

This great pull in us

To connect.

Why not become the one

Who lives with a full moon in each eye

That is always saying,

With that sweet moon language,

What every other eye in this world

Is dying to Hear.

From: Hafiz, The Gift: Poems by Hafiz The Great Sufi Master. Translated by Daniel Ladinsky, Penguin Compass, 1999.