The Sun Never Says
Dan Forrest (b. 1978)

Even
After
All this time.
The sun never says to the earth, 

“You owe
Me.”

Look
What happens
With a love like that,
It lights the
Whole
Sky.

--Daniel Ladinsky

Every Child has Known God
Ivo Antognini (b. 1963)

Every child has known God.

Not the God of names,

Not the God of don’ts

Not the God who ever does

Anything weird.

But the God who knows only four words.

And keeps repeating them, saying:

Come,

Dance with me.

                                --Hafiz (Persian lyric poet)