Suffering

"What is the key to untie the knot of your mind's suffering?  Act great.  My dear, always act great."  Hafiz

I Got Kin

Plant
So that your own heart
Will grow.
Love
So God will think
"Ahhhh,
I got Kin in that body!
I should start inviting that soul over
for coffee and
Rolls."

Sing
Because that is a food
Our starving world
Needs.
Laugh
Because that is the purest
Sound.

Hafiz

Eyes So Soft

Don't
Surrender
Your loneliness so quickly.
Let it cut more
Deep

Let it ferment and season you
As few human
Or even divine ingredients can.

Something missing in my heart tonight
Has made my eyes so soft,
My voice so tender,
My need of God
Absolutely
Clear

Why Not Be Polite

Everyone
Is God Speaking.
Why not be polite and
Listen.

Hafiz

Aliveness

"Stay close to any sounds that make you glad you are alive."   Hafiz

Your Soul

"Your soul sometimes plays a note
Against the Sky's ear that excites
The birds and planets."

Hafiz

The Sun In Drag

You are the Sun in drag.
You are God hiding from yourself.
Remove all the "mine" - that is the veil.
Why ever worry about
Anything?
Listen to what your friend Hafiz
Knows for certain:
The appearance of this world
Is a Magi's brilliant trick though it's affairs are
Nothing into nothing.
You are a divine elephant with amnesia
Trying to live in an ant
Holy Sweetheart, O Sweetheart
You are God in
Drag

Your Heart

The heart is a thousand-stringed instrument.
Our sadness and fear come from being
Out of tune with love.

Hafiz

The Suburbs

Complaint
Is only possible
While living in the suburbs
Of God.

Hafiz

I Want Both of Us

I want both of us
To start talking about this great love
As if you, I and the Sun were all married
And living in a tiny room,

Helping each other to cook,
Do the wash, weave and sew,
Care for our beautiful
Animals.

We all leave each morning
To labor on the earth's field
No one does not lift a great pack.

I want both of us to start sining like two
Traveling minstrels
About this extraordinary existence
We share,

As if
You, I and God were all  married
And living in
A tiny
Room.

Hafiz

Two Puddles Chatting

It rained during the night
And two puddles formed in the dark
And began chatting.
One said,

"It is so nice to at last be upon the earth
And to met you as well,

But what will happen when
The brilliant Sun comes
And turns us back into spirit again?"

Dear ones,
Enjoy the night as much as you can.

Why ever trouble your heart with flight, when you have just arrived
And your body is so full of warm desires.
And look:

So many meadows of soft hair are
Planted upon you.

Why ever trouble yourself with God
When He is so unjudging
And kind

Hafiz

Holy Fallout

We are often in battle.
So often defending every side of the fort,
It may seem, all alone.

Sit down, my dear,
Take a few deep breaths,
Think about a loyal friend.
Where is your music,
Your pet,
a brush?

Surely one who has lasted as long as you
Knows some avenue or place inside
That can give a sweet respite.

If you cannot slay your panic,
Them say within
As convincingly as you can,
"It is all God's will!"

Now pick up your life again.
Let whatever is out there
Come charging in,
Laugh and spit into the air,
There could be a holy fallout.

Throw those ladders like tiny match sticks
With "just" phantoms upon them
Who might be trying to scale your heart.

Your love has an eloquent tone.
The sky and I want to hear it!
If you still feel helpless
Give our battle cry again

Hafiz
Has shouted it a myriad times,

"It is all, It is all the Beloved's will!"

What is that luminous rain I see
All around you in the future
Sweeping in from the east plain?

It looks like, O it looks like
Holy Fallout
Filling your mouth and plams
With Joy!

Hafiz.

Love Contest

It
Is All
Just a love contest
And I never
Lose.

Now you have another good reason
To spend more time
With
Me.

Hafiz

Grace

"This is the time
For you to deeply compute the impossibility
That there is anything
But Grace."  Hafiz

Sacred

"Now is the time for the world to know
That every thought and action is sacred."

Hafiz

When You Can Endure

WHEN YOU CAN ENDURE

When

The words stop

And you can endure the silence

That reveals your heart's

Pain

Of emptiness

Or that great wrenching - sweet longing.

That is the time to try and listen

To what the /Beloved's

Eyes

Most want

To

Say.

Hafiz

Today

TODAY

I

Do not

Want to step so quickly

Over a beautiful line on God's palm

As I move through the earth's

Marketplace

Today.

I do not want to touch any object in the world

Without my eyes testifying to the truth

That everything is

My Beloved.

Something has happened

To my understanding of existence

That makes my heart always full of wonder

And kindness.

I do not

Want to step so quickly

Over this sacred place on God's body

That is right beneath your

Own feet.

As I 

Dance with

Precious life

Today.

Hafiz

Religiousness

What

Do sad people have in common?

It seems

They have all built a shrine 

To the past.

And often go there

And do a strange wail and

Worship

What is the beginning of 

Happiness?

It is to stop being so religious

Like

That.

Hafiz

Blame

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.

Hafiz

Greatness

Greatness

Is always built upon this foundation:

The ability

To appear, speak, and act

As the most

Common

Man