26 March, 2011

May your goodness always increase




May your goodness always increase

And your smiling face never cease


In our head the thought of your love

Every day is on the increase


Every cedar and every spruce

From your height may you hear their pleas


The eye not intrigued by thee

Its tear drops a bloody disease


Your eye for mesmerizing hearts

Is a magician and master-tease


Wherever a heart is longing for thee

Impatiently shears its own fleece


The beauty of all the lovers

Beside your swan is ugly geese


The heart that is out of love’s lease

From the circle of union release


Hafiz’s soul, your ruby lips ease

Away from base lips, if you please



Hafez Shirazi