Hafiz: Wise Men Keep Talking About

WISE MEN KEEP TALKING ABOUT

Time is the shop

Where everyone works hard

To build enough love

To break the

Shackle.

Wise men keep talking about

Wanting to meet Her.

Women sometimes pronounce the word God

A little differently:

They can use more feeling and skill

With the heart-lute.

All the world's movements,

Apparent chaos, and suffering I now know happen

In the Splendid Unison:

Our tambourines are striking

The same thigh.

Hafiz stands

At a juncture in this poem.

There are a thousand new wheels I could craft

On a wagon

And place you in -

Lead you to a glimpse of the culture

And seasons in another dimension.

Yet again God

Will have to drop you back at the shop

Where you still have work

With

Love.

~ Hafiz ~


(The Gift -- versions of Hafiz by Daniel Ladinsky)


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