The Pyre of Love

Hafiz
Love is the funeral pyre

Hafiz
Where I have laid my living body.

Hafiz
All the false notions of myself

Hafiz
That once caused fear, pain,

Hafiz
Have turned to ash

Hafiz
As I neared God.

Hafiz
What has risen

Hafiz
From the tangled web of thought and sinew

Hafiz
Now shines with jubilation

Hafiz
Through the eyes of angels

Hafiz
And screams from the guts of Infinite existence Itself.

Hafiz
Love is the funeral pyre