Steps

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We Came
Not
to Bow
or
Follow
a Creed—
Our Steps
in this
Existence
Only Need,
BE Light
BE Buoyant
BE Filled
with LOVE
for this is the
Greatest JOY, the
Greatest Creation
Created
from Therein—
from Thereof,
which our
Soul has come
to Experience
with all life
that also
has made
its appearance
to grow
step by step,
higher and higher
and higher still,
Until,
There It Is!
We May Knock
at the Door
of the Beloved—
BE with The Beloved,
and BE with Our Beloved,
Forevermore.

In response, and inspired by a poem within the book, THE GIFT, Poems by HAFIZ, The Great Sufi Master, Translations by Daniel Ladinsky.

Certainly not to say I am a master or even an apprentice in any way of poetry or mystical insight—all is simply a creative endeavor to see what my own mind and heart may say of the poem, to try and put it into my own words, or simply to respond to the ideas set forth by HAFIZ, and translated by Daniel.

(My apologies, this footnote will be repeated as I intend, at least presently, to continue in this mode for awhile. I am quite curious how AI will interpret things and how I may work and play, tweek words and such to perhaps change the direction AI is taking, in the end, hopefully to make a dream worthwhile sharing.)