Peter Lucas Hulen

Hafiz

Hafiz

IF YOU DON'T STOP THAT

I used to live in
A cramped house with confusion
And pain.

But then I met the Friend
And started getting drunk
And singing all
Night.

Confusion and pain
Started acting nasty,
Making threats,
With talk like this,

"If you don't stop 'that'—
All that fun—

We're
Leaving."




Daniel Ladinsky, Tr.,
The Gift: poems by Hafiz the great Sufi master
(New York: Penguin, 1999)