Happiness according to Hafez

What
Do sad people have in
Common?
It seems
They have all built a shrine
To the past
And often go there
And do a strange wail and
Worship.
What is the beginning of
Happiness?
It is to stop being
So religious
Like That.


-Hāfez

Run, Lola, Run.

The pain within is restless,
it goes and comes and comes and goes like roller coasters
up and down and inside out.
What is more painful than to live in the dark,
is to see the light at the end of the tunnel
and to know
that you are too drained
to ever reach it.