Hafiz

Let's eat

Why

Just show you God's menu?

Hell, we are all

Starving -

Let's

Eat!

A Hunting Party

A

Hunting party

Sometimes has a greater chance

Of flushing love and God

Out into the open

Than a warrior

All

Alone

You're It

God

Disguised

As a myriad things and

Playing a game

Of tag

Has kissed you and said,

"You're it -

I mean, you're Really IT!"

Now

It does not matter

What you believe or feel

For something wonderful,

Magor-league Wonderful,

Is someday going

To

Happen

The Sun Never Says

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.

This One Is Mine

Someone put

You on a slave block

And the unreal bought

You.

Now I keep coming to your owner

Saying,

"This one is mine."

You often overhear us talking

And this can make your heart leap

With excitement.

Don't worry.

I will not let sadness

Possess you.

I will gladly borrow all the gold

I need

To get you

Back.

Someone Untied Your Camel

I cannot sit still with my countrymen in chains.

I cannot act mute

Hearing the world's loneliness

Crying near the Beloved's Heart.

My love for God is such

That I could dance with Him tonight without you,

But I would rather have you there.

Is your caravan lost?

It is,

If you no longer weep from gratitude or happiness,

Or weep

From being cut deep with the awareness

Of the extraordinary beauty

That emanates form the most simple act

And common object.

My dear, is your caravan lost?

It is if you can no longer be kind to yourself

And loving to those who must live

With the sometimes difficult task of loving you.

At least come to know

That someone untied your camel last night

For I hear its gentle voice

Calling for God in the desert.

At least come to know

That Hafiz will always hold a lantern

With galaxies blooming inside

And that

I will always guide your soul to

The divine warmth and exhilaration

Of our Beloved's

Tent.

The Gift

Our

Union is like this:

You feel cold

So I reach for a blanket to cover

Our shivering feet.

A hunger comes into your body

So I run to my garden

And start digging potatoes.

You ask for a few words of comfort and guidance,

I quickly kneel at your side offering you

This whole book -

As a gift.

You ache with loneliness one night

So much you weep

And I say,

Here's a rope,

Tie it around me,

Hafiz

Will be your companion

For life.

The Sad Game

Blame

Keeps the sad game going.

It keeps stealing all your wealth -

Giving it to an imbecile with

No financial skills.

Dear one,

Wise

Up.

It Felt Love

How

Did the rose

Ever open its heart

And give to this world

All its

Beauty?

It felt the encouragement of light

Against its

Being.

Otherwise,

We all remain

Too

Frightened.