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Hazrat Hafiz Shirazi.
Learning of your
Passing away
Surrender I would
My life and walk away!
A divine/celestial
Bird am I
Walk away would I
From this worldly
Snare
A favor to me
You would do
Calling me
Your slave
Surrender I would
All worldly possessions
And walk away!
Do not sit
Near my grave
With songster
And wine
For the very
Fragrance of Wine
May bring me out –
Dancing!
Even though
Old am I
Hold me in
Your arms –
Tonight
So that
From your arms
In the morning
I walk away –
Young!/youthful.
Do not think
That to escape the
Vicissitudes of
The firmament
And the tyranny
Of Life/ the world
Walk away I will
From the dust
Of your threshold!
O beautiful/magnificent Idol
Display for me
A gesture of
Your head or
Even above that
That like Hafiz
I may walk away
From the life and
Works of this world!
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