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Her Story
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Hafiz
38. THE WARRIOR
The warriors tame
The beasts in their past
So that the night’s hoofs
Can no longer break the jeweled vision
In the heart.
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The intelligent and the brave
Open every closet in the future and evict
All the mind’s ghosts who have the bad habit
Of barfing everywhere.
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For a long time the Universe
Has been germinating in your spine
But only a Pir* has the talent,
The courage to slay
The past-giant, the future-anxieties.
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The warrior
Wisely sits in a circle
With others
Gathering the strength to unmask
Himself,
Then
Sits, giving,
Like a great illumined planet on
The
Earth.
* Persian: Saint
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