You Left a Thousand Women Crazy

Last time,

When You walked through the city

So Beautiful and Naked,

You left a thousand women crazy

And impossible to live with.

You left a thousand married men

Confused about their gender.

Children ran from their classrooms,

And teachers were glad You came.

And the sun tried to break out

Of its royal cage in the sky

And at last, and at last

Lay its Ancient Love at Your feet.

And I wish You would have let it,

So the whole world could have died

Like Hafiz,

Dancing so happily,

Filled with Ecstasy and

Unbearable Divine Light.

— HAFIZ —