[Hafiz] IT WILL STRETCH OUT ITS LEG

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Joseph Riley

Hafiz

 

 

 

 

IT WILL STRETCH OUT ITS LEG

 

 

 

 

All the classes you have sat in,

All the money you have paid

For "truth,"

 

Something must be wrong, though,

If your eye still wanders through the streets

Acting like a beggar.

 

Why not try this:

Let all the fake teachers starve.

 

Picture one of the great masters

In your mind,

 

Put your lips against his cheek

Each morning.

 

Say, keep saying,

 

"Dear Beloved, pinch me.

I want proof You're near -

A love-bruise on my rump will do."

 

The Friend is an unfathomable well

That knows everything;

Draw from that safe luminous sky.

 

Stay near this book,

It will stretch out its leg and

Trip you;

 

You'll fall

Into

God.

 

 

 

 

 

("The Gift" -- versions of Hafiz by Daniel Ladinsky; orginal presentation by

David Williamson)

 

 

 

 

 

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