Hafiz

What Should We Do about that Moon ?

A wine bottle fell from a wagon

and broke open in a field.
That night hundred of beetles and all their cousins

gathered and did some serious binge drinking.

They even found some seed husks nearby

and began to play them like drums and whirl.

This made God very happy.
Then the 'night candle' rose into the sky

and one drunk creature, laying down his instrument

said to his friend - for no apparent reason,
"What should we do about that moon?"
Seems to Hafiz most everyone has laid aside the music
tackling such profoundly useless questions.

From: 'The Gift' translated by Daniel Ladinsky