Ghazal 129

اگر نه باده غم دل ز یاد ما ببرد
نهیب حادثه بنیاد ما ز جا ببرد

اگر نه عقل به مستی فروکشد لنگر
چگونه کشتی از این ورطهٔ بلا ببرد

فغان که با همه کس غایبانه باخت فلک
که کس نبود که دستی از این دغا ببرد

گذار بر ظلمات است، خضر راهی کو؟
مباد کآتش محرومی آب ما ببرد

دل ضعیفم از آن می‌کشد به طرف چمن
که جان ز مرگ به بیماری صبا ببرد

طبیب عشق منم باده ده که این معجون
فراغت آرد و اندیشهٔ خطا ببرد

بسوخت حافظ و کس حال او به یار نگفت
مگر نسیم پیامی خدای را ببرد

If wine does not carry the heart's grief out of our mind,
the terror of events will carry our foundation away.

If reason does not drop anchor in drunkenness,
how will it carry the ship out of this whirlpool of calamity?

Alas that the sky played unseen against everyone,
and there was no one who carried a hand against this cheat.

The passage is through the darkness; where is a Khizr for the road?
May the fire of deprivation not carry off our water.

My weak heart draws me toward the meadow because
it may carry its life from death through the sickly breeze.

I am the physician of love; give wine, for this potion
brings ease and carries off wrong thinking.

Hafez burned, and no one told the friend of his state;
perhaps the breeze, for God's sake, will carry a message.