troubled?

[desmond dillon]

       

     Troubled?   

then stay with me

for i am not.

            

      Lonely?    

a thousand naked

amorous ones dwell

in the caves beneath my eyelids. 

      

       Riches?

   here is a pick,    

my whole body is an emerald

that begs 'Take me.'

         

Write all that worries you on a piece of parchment;

offer it to God.

Even from the distance of a millenium

      

i can lean the  flame of  my heart  

into your life 

and turn all that frightens you  

into holy incense ash.   

        

   Hafiz

    

.