Soft Hearts

To get closer to Truth and Right, we need a beautiful and soft heart

                             Shams al Tabriz

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We need some people with soft hearts

Not arrogant hearts

Not calculating hearts

Not hearts full of anger

Or hate

Not ones stuffed with greed

But hearts that are softened by Sacred Presence

And are able to embrace

others

----  we interrupt this poem with news from the latest party convention ---

Currently in the city of Cleveland

The slimy ugly underbelly of American is being scratched

People are rejoicing in the opportunity

To not just embrace the worst parts of themselves

The angry hateful parts,

But exalt and legitimize that which is ugly and hard

And to rejoice in a division that benefits them

And wounds others

The circus next stops in Philadelphia

-----  now back to our poem ------

for this is the truth we often deny,

when we find ourselves

“in” the Sacred, which is love

we will find there with us

               surprise

those we least expect

for, as a far better poet says

“In love no longer thou and I exist,

for Self has passed away in the Beloved” (Attar)

when we find ourselves in God Love Sacred Beloved

then all this

Orlando, Baton Rouge, St Paul, Dallas,

Baton Rouge (again), Cleveland, Philadelphia

will end