Close My Eyes - Ghazal

Please, ancient universe, just let me close my eyes Sleep lingering in empty wineglass, close my eyes Children of the street, singing in syllabled rhymes Imagine they're horses eating grass, close my eyes Affairs of men, hurry along the laggart world Their lives are smoking censors of brass: close my eyes Words getting spoken, from where do they arrive? Strange tales spring up and come to pass, so close my eyes Flowers wed the sun, moon weds reluctant virgins Things unspoken then they break like glass, close my eyes I once gave you a present, now it's gone away We make much of things that never last, close my eyes Touch me, and a thousand ghosts are reawakened They live in this moment, and the past, close my eyes Give me watered tears, once the wineglass has broken This woman will turn into ash. Then close my eyes