Ghazal 26

Disheveled hair, sweaty, smiling, drunken, and
With a torn shirt, singing, the jug in hand

Narcissus loudly laments, on his lips, alas, alas!
Last night at midnight, came and sat right by my bed-stand

Brought his head next to my ears, with a sad song
Said, O my old lover, you are still in dreamland

The lover who drinks this nocturnal brew
Infidel, if not worships the wine's command

Go away O hermit, fault not the drunk
Our Divine gift from the day that God made sea and land

Whatever He poured for us in our cup, we just drank
If it was a cheap wine or heavenly brand

The smile on the cup's face and Beloved's hair strand
Break many who may repent, just as Hafiz falsely planned.