posted February 13, 2008 10:30 PM         

If you want a boxer
I will step into the ring for you
And if you want a doctor
Ill examine every inch of you
If you want a driver
Climb inside
Or if you want to take me for a ride
You know you can
Im your man

Ah, the moons too bright
The chains too tight
The beast wont go to sleep
Ive been running through these promises to you
That I made and I could not keep
Ah but a man never got a woman back
Not by begging on his knees
Or Id crawl to you baby
And Id fall at your feet
And Id howl at your beauty
Like a dog in heat
And Id claw at your heart
And Id tear at your sheet
Id say please, please
Im your man

And if youve got to sleep
A moment on the road
I will steer for you
And if you want to work the street alone
Ill disappear for you
If you want a father for your child
Or only want to walk with me a while
Across the sand
Im your man

If you want a lover
Ill do anything you ask me to
And if you want another kind of love
Ill wear a mask for you

posted February 13, 2008 10:56 PM         

I am happy even before I have a reason.

I am full of Light even before the sky
Can greet the sun or the moon.

Dear companions,
We have been in love with God
For so very, very long.

What can Hafiz now do but
Forever
Dance!

The Only One

From man’s perspective

In this intricate game of love,

It is so easy to become confused

And think you are the do-er.

But from God’s Infinite Certainty,

He always Knows

That He is the only One

Who should ever be put on trial.

Hafiz

posted February 13, 2008 11:11 PM         

He spun me 'round,
I almost fell.
Instead, I peeled,
Like a steeple bell --

And belled my skirts
in winds of change.
My dizzy world
thus rearranged.

I could not trace
the final goal;
This dancefloor has
no lines at all.

And still,
this dizzy music sounds,
inside my dizzy dancing soul.