"I Have Learned So Much" –Hafiz, Persian poet (1315 – 1390), translated by Daniel Lazinsky

I

Have

Learned

So much from God

That I can no longer

Call Myself

A Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim,

A Buddhist, a Jew.

The Truth has shared so much of Itself

With me

That I can no longer call myself

A man, a woman, an angel,

Or even pure Soul.

Love has be friended Hafiz so completely

It has turned to ash

And freed Me

Of every concept and image 

My mind has ever known.