I asked Hafez
for inspiration
and he poured gasoline
all over my poetry
and set it on fire!
Then he spent the whole night
fanning its flame with his dancing!
To be honest, it's all starting to get
a little much.
He turned the stars into cymbals
and has spent night after night
making quite the golden racket
clanging them together.
When I groaned,
"Hafez, quiet down--I'm trying to sleep!"
He replied, "This cosmic applause for God
knows no cease!"
He’s unleashed muse after muse
they’re buzzing around my consciousness
like mosquitoes
there are so many
sometimes I have to swat one away
before it bites my heart.
Truly, in some moments
it all feels like quite the holy nuisance
but the real truth is
I never, never want this madness
to stop.
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