Thursday, April 21, 2005

Our Hearts Should Do This More

I sit in the streets with the homeless

My clothes stained with the wine
From the vineyards the saints tend.

Light has painted all acts
The same color

So I sit around and laugh all day
With my friends.

At night if I feel a divine loneliness
I tear the doors off Love's mansion

And wrestle God onto the floor.
He becomes so pleased with Hafiz
And says, "Our hearts should do this more."

'The Gift - Poems by Hafiz The Great Sufi Master'
Translations by Daniel Ladinsky

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