This Sane Idea

Let your

Intelligence begin to rule

Whenever you sit with others

Using this sane idea:

Leave all your cocked guns in a field

Far from us,

One of those damn things

Might go

I Have Learned So Much

I

Have

Learned so much from God

That I can no longer

Call

Myself

A Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim

A Buddhist, a Jew.

The truth has shared so much of Itself

With me

That I can no loner call myself

A man, a woman, an angel

Or even pure

Soul.

Love has

Befriended Hafiz so completely

It has turned to ash

And freed

Me

Of every concept and image

My mind has ever known.

The Sun Never Says

Even

After

All this time

The sun never says to the earth,

You owe

Me.

Look

What happens

With a love like that,

It lights the

Whole

Who Wrote All the Music

Why is it now

That I come to you like a humble servant

Willing to feed you brilliant words and love

From my own sacred mouth and hands,

Willing to say, I am sorry,

I am sorry for all your pain?

It is because when God

Fully revealed himself in me

I saw that it was Hafiz

Who wrote all the music you have been playing,

Who wrote all your notes of sadness,

But also etched and gave you

Every ecstatic wince of joy in your face, body,

And heart has ever known.

Okay my dear,

You have stumbled enough in the earths sweet dance,

You have paid all your dues

Many times.

Now lets get down to the real reason

Why we sit together and breathe

And begin the laughing, the divine laughing,

Like heroic women

And magnificent

Strong men.

Mismatched Newlyweds

Like

A pair

Of mismatched newlyweds,

One of who still feels very insecure,

I keep turning to god

Saying

Kiss

Crystal Rim

The

Earth

Lifts its glass to the sun

And light-light

Is poured.

A bird

Comes and sits on a crystal rum

And from my forest cave i

Hear singing,

So I run to the edge of existence

And join my soul in love,

I lift my heart to god

And grace is poured,

An emerald bird rises from inside me

And now sits

Upon the beloveds

Glass.

I have left that dark cave forever,

My body has blended with his.

I lay my wing

As a bridge to you

So that you can join us

Singing.