“It has been my observation that the happiest of people, the vibrant doers of the world, are almost always those who are using — who are putting into play, calling upon, depending upon the greatest number of their God-given talents and capabilities.”  ~John Glenn

All the Hemisphers — Hafiz (In memory of John Glenn, 1921 – 2016, who circled and circles the earth seeing the world as one)

Leave the familiar for a while.
Let your senses and bodies stretch out

Like a welcomed season
Onto the meadows and shores and hills.

Open up to the Roof.
Make a new water-mark on your excitement
And love.

Like a blooming night flower,
Bestow your vital fragrance of happiness
And giving
Upon our intimate assembly.

Change rooms in your mind for a day.

All the hemispheres in existence
Lie beside an equator
In your heart.

Greet Yourself
In your thousand other forms
As you mount the hidden tide and travel
Back home.

All the hemispheres in heaven
Are sitting around a fire
Chatting

While stitching themselves together
Into the Great Circle inside of
You.