Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Trying To Wear Pants

                  You are
               A royal fish
          Trying to wear pants
         In a country as foreign
                   As land.

         Now there's a problem
            Worth discussing.

Your separation from God has ripened
      Now fall like a golden fruit
               Into my hand.

All your wounds from craving love
      Exist because of heroic deeds.

     Now trade in those medals;
That courage will help the world.

One needs to love those they have yet to love
      To stand near the Friend.

                    Why
               Be a royal fish
          Trying to wear pants?

                    Hafiz,
      What are you talking about?
Has something happened to your once
                  Brilliant
                   Mind?

-Hafiz (rendered by Daniel Ladinski)