A Community of the Spirit

From Chapter 1: THE TAVERN
Ghazal 2577
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Blend with the crowd to experience the joy of life, come to the tavern to see the drinkers.  
Drink the cup of madness to wash away disgrace, close your eyes to see the hidden.  
Open your hands if you desire an embrace, break the earthly idol to see the divine.  
How long will you pay a dowry for an old woman, and for three loaves of bread, how long will you see swords and spears?  
Here is a cupbearer without cruelty, in his gathering, sit in the circle to see the cycle.  
Here usury is good, give a soul and take a hundred, reduce your wolfishness and doggishness to see the shepherd's love.  
Tonight the beloved turns, do not consume opium, close your mouth from eating to taste the mouth.  
You say the enemy took someone from you, go and abandon that person to see twenty others.  
Think only of the Creator, for in thinking of the beloved, you see the thought of bread.  
With the vastness of God's earth, why cling to imprisonment, loosen the knot of thought to see the explanation of paradise.  
Be silent from this speaking to carry a word, pass beyond the soul and the world to see the soul and the world.

Barks Interpretation

There is a community of the spirit.