What then Hafez? - Bruce Silverman

[Larry Robinson]

What then Hafez? 

Hafez said: 
“THE GREAT RELIGIONS ARE THE SHIPS AND POETRY THE LIFE BOATS
EVERY SANE MAN I’VE EVER KNOWN HAS JUMPED OVERBOARD.” 

But you may ask: what then Hafez?  

Then we’ll drift across uncharted seas in lifeboats without the antiquated provisions of clerics.

We’ll survive by drinking holy rain-water, catching luminescent spirit fish, and making midnight prayers of the heart. 

Then after years or decades, we’ll return to a great ship that leads us onward, but not back to the familiar oceans of certainty. 

We’ll sit and humbly join hands with those huddled in the dark recesses of the ship’s steerage, who have left home forever in search of undiscovered lands. 
 
	- Bruce Silverman