The Place Where You Are Now

The Subject Tonight Is Love

This place where you are right now
God circled on a map for you.

Wherever your eyes and arms and heart can move
against the earth and the sky,

the Beloved has bowed there –
knowing you were coming.

I could tell you a priceless secret about
your real worth, dear

but any unkindness to yourself
any confusion about others,

will keep one from accepting
the grace, the love,

the sublime freedom
divine knowledge always offers to you.

~Hafiz