Faithful Lover

The Moon came to me last night

With a sweet question.

She said,

"The sun has been my faithful lover

For millions of years.

Whenever I offer my body to him

Brilliant light pours from his heart.

Thousands then notice my happiness

And delight in pointing

Toward my beauty.

Hafiz,

Is it true that our destiny

Is to turn into Light

Itself?

And I replied,

Dear Moon,

Now that your love is maturing,

We need to sit together

Close like this more often

So I might instruct you

How to become

Who you

Are!

Hafiz 

If I Could

If  I

could reach out,

and gently touch

your

Golden Heart,

If I could

wrap you

in a blanket

of Velvet blue light,

If I could drown you

in an ocean of Nectar

I would...

Narayan

No slouching

50 laps a day

last night

in the rain

I did the work

my favorite tapas

stroking through the raindrops

breathe and pull

until the water becomes mana

Hafiz said I had been slouching

too many cookies

not enough crunch
not enough burn

so I do the work

the good work

fine tuning

sharpening

the instrument

for the battles ahead
also

Just in case

he comes after me

with a stick again
Narayan

Busy, Busy Busy

Hafiz came to my office today

and asked me 

if I knew how to Twirl

I laughed and said,

"I am very busy, Hafiz,

I have a business to run

and people to serve"

Perhaps I'll see you tonight

He just sighed and walked away,

muttering under his breath,

"too busy, too busy, too busy for God...

busy,busy,busy"

Later on that evening,

I found him

on a hilltop

overlooking the sea

 dancing ecstatically

twirling

in a Field of wildflowers

Hafiz, I said ,

It's time to go home now,

it will be dark soon

He laughed

 intoxicated

and looked me

 right in the  eye

Crazy Boy, This, THIS IS  my home

dancing and singing 

in the fields with my beloved

spinning around 

 I remember her love

and she fills me with her nectar

Then  he got up and staggered towards me

and grabbed my fine dress shirt

"Crazy Boy,

you serve so many,

but you also have to serve

the Friend

and if you don't steal her away

from the house of rubies

your life is just an empty shell..

Now leave me be

while I twirl...

under the moonlight

with my beloved...

hmmm...

Busy, Busy,Busy..."
Narayan

Response from a Lousy Thief

The greatest thieves
always share their plunder
with their mates
Otherwise hoarding becomes just hard work
In fact,
If I could steal
a smile from my beloved's tender mouth,
or one moment of her ecstatic laughter
If I were to capture
a single moment of her Divine song...

I would share them ALL with YOU
because I've seen your Ruby Heart

Hafiz HAS taught me how to share
So,
Yes,
I WILL take the Moonlight back to my Tree house
and every night I will come back out and
dance in her exquisite beauty

Join me if you feel the sweet longing

because it's much more fun 

than dancing alone


  Hafiz will eventually find out
and that may get  nasty
He's REALLY tough for an old Sufi Saint
and when he found out
that I stole your picture
out of his coat
he chased after me

for miles
swinging a big stick.

Narayan

Among Strong Men

"My soul is like a doe eyed maid

With lips

Still bruised from last night's passion.

Among strong men in the tavern,

I can speak a truth

No one will laugh at:

My heart is like a wild alley cat in heat.

In every possible way I conspire

To know freedom and Love.

Forget about the common reason, Hafiz,

For it only enslaves.

There is something holy deep inside you

That is so ardent and awake,

That needs to lie down naked

Next to God."

Hafiz

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