You Better Start Tying Yourself Up
(A riff on “You Better Start Kissing Me” by Hafiz)
Drop your car keys
at god’s feet
I hear god
prefers a different sort of travel
Something more like:
You
Naked and blindfolded
Tied to the chair
Expectant
God wants to see
the opposite
of self-restraint
Now. Tie
Yourself up
Or else!
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You Better Start Kissing Me by Hafiz
Throw away
Your begging bowls at God’s door
For I have heard the Beloved
Prefers sweet threatening shouts,
Something on the order of:
Hey, Beloved,
My heart is a raging volcano
of love for you!
You better start kissing me -
Or else!”