Your Mother and My Mother, by Hafiz

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Fear is the cheapest room in the house.
I would like to see you living
In better conditions,

For your mother and my mother
Were friends.
...
I should not make any promises right now,
But I know if you
Pray
Somewhere in this world -
Something good will happen.
...
Your heart and my heart
Are very, very old
Friends.

from The Gift: Poems by Hafiz, the Great Sufi Masterl, transl. by Daniel Ladinsky

http://poetryblogroll.blogspot.com/2011/09/classic-poetry-your-mother-and-my.html

Hafez - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
...Born 1325/1326 CE Died 1389/1390 CE
Shiraz, Persia (now Iran)
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Khwāja Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī (Persian: خواجه شمس??الدین محمد حافظ شیرازی?? , known by his pen name Hafez (حافظ Ḥāfeẓ; 1325/26–1389/90),[1] was a Persian poet who "laud[ed] the joys of love and wine [but] also targeted religious hypocrisy."[2] His collected works are regarded as a pinnacle of Persian literature and are to be found in the homes of most people in Iran, who learn his poems by heart and still use them as proverbs and sayings. His life and poems have been the subject of much analysis, commentary and interpretation, influencing post-14th century Persian writing more than any other author.
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