Cast All Your Votes for Dancing
I know the voice of depression
Still calls to you
I know those habits that can ruin your life
Still send their invitation.
But you are with the Friend now
And look so much stronger
You can stay that way
And even bloom!
Keep squeezing drops of the Sun
From your prayers and work and music
And from your companions' beautiful laughter.
Keep squeezing drops of the Sun
From the sacred hands and glance of your Beloved
And, my Dear,
From the most insignificant movements of your own holy body.
Learn to recognize the counterfeit coins
that may buy you just a moment of pleasure,
But then drag you for days,
Like a broken man,
behind a farting camel.
You are with the Friend now
Learn what actions of yours delight Him,
What actions of yours bring freedom,
and Love.
Whenever you say God's name, dear pilgrim,
My ears wish my head were missing
So they could finally kiss each other
And applaud all your nourishing wisdom!
O keep squeezing drops of the Sun
From your prayers and work and music,
And from your companions' beautiful laughter
And from the most insignificant movements of your own holy body.
Now Sweet one,
be wise,
Cast all your votes for dancing!
-Hafiz
I know the voice of depression
Still calls to you
I know those habits that can ruin your life
Still send their invitation.
But you are with the Friend now
And look so much stronger
You can stay that way
And even bloom!
Keep squeezing drops of the Sun
From your prayers and work and music
And from your companions' beautiful laughter.
Keep squeezing drops of the Sun
From the sacred hands and glance of your Beloved
And, my Dear,
From the most insignificant movements of your own holy body.
Learn to recognize the counterfeit coins
that may buy you just a moment of pleasure,
But then drag you for days,
Like a broken man,
behind a farting camel.
You are with the Friend now
Learn what actions of yours delight Him,
What actions of yours bring freedom,
and Love.
Whenever you say God's name, dear pilgrim,
My ears wish my head were missing
So they could finally kiss each other
And applaud all your nourishing wisdom!
O keep squeezing drops of the Sun
From your prayers and work and music,
And from your companions' beautiful laughter
And from the most insignificant movements of your own holy body.
Now Sweet one,
be wise,
Cast all your votes for dancing!
-Hafiz