Monday, October 3, 2022

Hafiz: Your Shape of Laughter

 Your Shape of Laughter
 
Let my words become like a skilled
Potter's hands,

Quieting,
Smoothing your life
With their knowledge,

Reaching into your tender core
And spreading you out
Like the morning
 
That leaps from the sun's amused wink
Onto hills, brows, and backs of so many
Beautiful laboring beasts.
 
God's duty is to make perfect
All your movements of mind, of limb,
And your ascending shape of laughter.
 
 Watch the way my hands dance
With their diamond-edged brilliance
 
Cutting you open with music,
Reaching into your heart 

And spilling the night sky-jar you carry
That is always full of giggling planets and stars.
 
 My words are a divine potter's wheel.
If you stay near to me,
Please,
Stay near to me
 
And Hafiz will spin you into
Love.
 
— Hafiz
From The Subject Tonight is Love
 

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