Morning Water and a Poet

We learn this from a drunken king,

who wakes up hungover and sick,

asking for two things, a morning drink of water,

and Let it be brought by a poet.

There is a tradition that the wine

of nonexistence makes us God-drunk.

Intoxicated that way, we are purified.

There is a kind of poet

whose poetry pours that wine,

and there is another poet who makes us want

the red wine and the white.

The two poets may even have the same name.

Look inside form. Read with your soul

this Masnavi. Let it bring you

morning water and a poet.