Perfect Equanimity

Look how a mirror

will reflect with perfect equanimity

all actions

before it.

There is no act in this world

that will ever cause the mirror to look away.

There is no act in this world that will

ever make the mirror

say ‘no.’

The mirror, like perfect love, will just keep

giving

of itself to all

before

it.

How did the mirror ever get like that, so polite,

so grand, so compassionate?

It watched God.

Yes, the mirror remembers the Beloved

looking into itself as the Beloved shaped

existence’s heart

and the mirror’s soul.

My eye has the nature of God.

Hafiz looks upon all with perfect equanimity,

as do my words,

dear.

My poems will never tell you no,

because the Mirror is

not like

that,

and if God ever hits you with a don’t –

He has His fingers crossed,

He is just fibbing

for your own

good.

Hafiz