What could have caused your grip to weaken
that allowed creation to be?

How could a lover fall to his death
from the arms of infinite
strength?

How active you are in the mind sustaining such a great wall
that the sun can cast a frightening shadow
the world believes.

No one has ever really known sadness. No real God
would ever allow pain.

How then can a heart feel it is broken and in need
if we are held in the arms of infinite
compassion and
strength?

That mirror you (God) stand before –
we need to gaze into it also.

That name you called Beloved
as I fell from your lips –
I suffer

because I did not quite
hear it;

so tell me again dear One
so clear:

I am
you.

- Hafiz

Version: Daniel Ladinsky

from Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West, Translated by Daniel Ladinsky