If your cellar is empty,
This whole Universe
Could drink forever
From mine!
Let’s dine tonight with exquisite music.
I might even hire angels
To play – just for you.
Look!
Hidden beneath your feet
Is a Luminous Stage
Where we are meant to rehearse
Our Eternal Dance!
And what is the price of my Divine Instruction?
What could I ask of you?
All I could ever want
Is that
You have the priceless company
Of Someone
Who can Kiss God
– Hafiz, “Someone Who Can Kiss God”, transl. Daniel Ladinsky from I Heard God Laughing
