Hafez means the preserver of the holy word of God;

Hafez means the preserver of the holy word of God;
For him this was not the Koran, but a truth much more mod.

His interest was the lyric- a personal confession:
The beloved with long curly hair was his obsession.

For God to be bloody real he has to be flesh and blood;
All other definitions are shitty and stinking crud.

The religious prefer to flirt with a bloodless abstraction:
“What the lord said” gives the dogmatic enormous traction.

The passionate lover longs for genuine intimacy;
To undress a hidebound book is cerebral lunacy!

Hafez’s other name means revealer of the hidden;
For the preacher, the twists of love’s curls remain forbidden.

Darvish wonders what in the history of sacred speech,
Can compare with what the Divan-e-Hafez has to teach?

 

 

 

 

 

 

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