The sun never says to the earth, ‘You owe me.’
Look what happens with a love like that,
It lights the whole sky.” (Hafez)
“He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good.” (Matthew 5 : 45 NKJV)
Sending its beams between rooftops and trees,
The morning sun bobs like an amber blob
With rays of love for all our lands and seas.
Our skies are thus lit with a selfless ease
As galactic fire heats up like a hob,
Sending its beams between rooftops and trees.
Our earth offers neither ‘thank you’ nor ‘please’.
Humankind just expects blessings to lob
From rays of love for all our lands and seas.
Without warmth we would surely wilt and wheeze,
And there would be no wealth for fiends to rob,
If not for beams sent ‘tween rooftops and trees.
We act as if all of our luxuries
Come from the hands and the minds of the mob,
Not rays of love for all our lands and seas.
We extract life’s riches by vile decrees
And fail to see the source of every throb,
Sending its beams between rooftops and trees
With rays of love for all our lands and seas.
