remember me

I will be with you in the grave

on the night you leave

behind your shop and your family.

When you hear my soft voice echoing in your tomb,

you will realize that you were never hidden from my eyes.

I am the pure awareness within your heart,

with you during joy and celebration,

suffering and despair.
On that strange and fateful night

you will hear a familar voice --

you'll be rescued from the fangs of snakes

and the searing sting of scorpions.

The euphoria of love will sweep over your grave;

it will bring wine and friends, candles and food.
When the light of realization dawns,

shouting and upheaval will rise up from the graves!

The dust of ages will be stirred by the cities of ecstasy,

by the banging of drums, by the clamor of revolt!
Dead bodies will tear off their shrouds

and stuff their ears in fright--

What use are the senses and the ears before the blast of that Trumpet?
Look and you will see my form

whether you are looking at yourself or toward that noise and confusion.
Don't be blurry-eyed,

See me clearly-

See my beauty without the old eyes of delusion.
Beware! Beware!

Don't mistake me for this human form.

The soul is not obscured by forms.

Even if it were wrapped in a hundred folds

of felt the rays of the soul's light would still shine through.
Beat the drum,Follow the minstrels of the city.

It's a day of renewal

when every young manwalks boldly on the path of love.
Had everyone sought God

Instead of crumbs and copper coins

T'hey would not be sitting

on the edge of the moatin darkness and regret.
What kind of gossip-house

have you opened in our city?

Close your lipsand shine on the world like loving sunlight.
Shine like the Sun of Tabriz

rising in the East.

Shine like the star of victory.

Shine like the whole universe is yours