You Left A Thousand Women Crazy


Beloved,
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.


translated by Daniel Ladinsky

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