Sometimes the longing becomes the only thing. Thank you for listening.

Reading of a poem by Hafiz called, Please,  an excerpt from his book  of poetry called The Gift, Poems by Hafiz the Sufi Master, translated by Daniel Ladinsky. 
music: https://pixabay.com/users/artslop_flodur-1985637/ 

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A riff on these postings can be found on the blog allthedifferentways.com/blog where I've composed thoughts and multimedia responses to this material are posted. Thank you for listening.