Conversations with Hafiz

I spoke with Hafiz tonight

and he said we have to stop meeting like this

under the moonlight

where he dances

He said that If I continued playing with you

I would lose myself in good wine

and that special spot in the small of your back

(the one that makes you giggle)

But HE was drunk again and he had a picture of YOU in his pocket

Hafiz is a rascal!

He laughed

when I asked him about your picture

and said, Narayan, "If you wore the new moon in your hair,

and Venus sparkled on your nose

"If you wore Saturn's golden rings on beautiful slender fingers

and Mars and Jupiter wrapped around your soft ankles

that glowed like blue and red gems

then I would have YOUR picture in my pocket too!"

That's when I knew he was way to drunk to talk to

so I left him snoring in the sand

But thinking back,

I know now why he worships you so...

Wait... Did you know?

why he worships you so?

That the new moon gently rests in your hair

and Venus sparkles on your nose

that Saturn's golden rings adorn your delicate fingers

Well, now that YOU know

you can see my predicament

I took you home a very long time ago

when divine thunder broke down the golden door.

Narayan