Hafiz: This Is the Kind of Friend You Are

This is the kind of Friend 
You are -
Without making me realize
My soul's anguished history,
You slip into my house at night,
And while I am sleeping,
You silently carry off
All my suffering and sordid past
In your beautiful hands.

- Hafiz
 

from Rumi, Saadi, Hafiz (Poems and Quotes)