Friday, December 31, 2021

When Sorrow Comes


It is not possible to complete yourself
without sorrow.

Sorrow is a vital ingredient that shapes
the heart and enriches it.

So endure sadness the best you can
when its season comes.

That rain that can fall from your eye
brings life to a field,

and on other days when you laugh,
a sun takes birth in a sky you will
someday know.

See how all the elements
are inside of you.

See how your soul is a sire of light.

Hafiz
From Daniel Ladinsky’s A Year With Hafiz
Penguin Books, 2013
p. 121



See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
I Need Do Nothing . . . I Am Open to the Living Light
Saaxiib Qurux Badan – November 25, 2021
Just One Wish
Saaxiib Qurux Badan – June 29, 2021
Blue Yonder
Saaxiib Qurux Badan – June 24, 2021
What We Crave
Saaxiib Qurux Badan – January 30, 2021
November Musings
Saaxiib Qurux Badan – November 18, 2020
Today I Will Be Still
Adnan in Morning Light
It’s You
The Landscape Is a Mirror
Out and About – Spring 2020
Family Time in Guruk . . . and Glimpses of Somaliland
Somalia Bound
Saaxiib Qurux Badan – July 15, 2019
Saaxiib Qurux Badan – July 14, 2019
Adnan . . . Amidst Mississippi Reflections and Forest Green
Adnan . . . with Sunset Reflections and Jet Trail
Saaxiib Qurux Badan – April 16, 2019
In This In-Between Time
Saaxiib Qurux Badan – March 29, 2019

Image: Saaxiib Qurux Badan (“Beautiful Friend”), Minneapolis, MN – Michael J. Bayly (12/31/21).


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