Drops and Specks

Penetrate the heart of one drop of water —
you'll be flooded by a hundred pure oceans.
If you examine carefully a speck of dust,
you'll see a million unnameable beings.
The limbs of a fly are like an elephant.
A hundred harvests reside in a germ of barley seed.
A millet seed holds a whole world.
An insect's wing unfolds an ocean.
Cosmic rays lie hidden in the pupil of my eye,
and somehow the center of my heart
accommodates the Pulse of the Universe.

Mahmud Shabistari, Desert Wisdom by Neil Douglas-Klotz