Hafez means the preserver of the holy word of God;
For him this was not the Koran, but a truth much more mod.
His interest was the lyric- a personal confession:
The beloved with long curly hair was his obsession.
For God to be bloody real he has to be flesh and blood;
All other definitions are shitty and stinking crud.
The religious prefer to flirt with a bloodless abstraction:
“What the lord said” gives the dogmatic enormous traction.
The passionate lover longs for genuine intimacy;
To undress a hidebound book is cerebral lunacy!
Hafez’s other name means revealer of the hidden;
For the preacher, the twists of love’s curls remain forbidden.
Darvish wonders what in the history of sacred speech,
Can compare with what the Divan-e-Hafez has to teach?
