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Why Aren't We Screaming Drunks?
by Hafiz (Daniel Ladinsky)
(1945? - ) Timeline
Original Language
English
Muslim / Sufi
Contemporary
The sun once glimpsed God's true nature
And has never been the same.
Thus that radiant sphere
Constantly pours its energy
Upon this earth
As does He from behind
The veil.
With a wonderful God like that
Why isn't everyone a screaming drunk?
Hafiz's guess is this:
Any thought that you are better or less
Than another man
Quickly
Breaks the wine
Glass.
God has never really spoken,
though a thought once crossed His mind.
It is the echo of divine
silence
we hear the birds sing, and that
is the source of all
we see and
touch.
What
Would
Happen if God leaned down
And gave you a full wet
Kiss?
Hafiz
Doesn't mind answering astronomical questions
Like that:
You would surely start
Reciting all day, inebriated,
Rogue-poems
Like
This.
In a vision I heard this clearly whispered:
Study most those who sing the most, but are free of criticism and praise. Following this advice, things turned out just as I suspected:
I started spending more time with birds.
