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23 May 2009 @ 08:57 pm
I'd like to get drunk too  
It's not fun to be always sober. 

I am drunk and you are insane
tell me, who will lead us home?
How many times have I asked you not to drink so much
for I see no sober soul in town.
Come to the tavern my dearest and taste the wine of love
for the soul is joyous only in the company of lovers.
The tavern of love is your livelihood
your income and expenses, the wine.
Be careful, not to trust a sober soul
with even one drop of this wine.
Go on playing your lute, my drunken gypsy but tell me,
between the two of us, who is more drunk?
As I left my house a Sufi approached me,
in his glance I saw a hundred gardens.
He swayed from side to side like a ship without an anchor,
while a hundred reasonable men watched on enviously.
Where are you from? I asked him.
He replied, "Half from Turkistan and half from Farghaneh,
half from water and clay and half from soul and heart,
half from the edge of the sea and half from the depths of the coean."

-- Ghazal (Ode) 2398
Translated by Azima Melita Kolin
and Maryam Mafi

I have never been totally drunk  in which I couldn't walk anymore. (And I'm already twenty four. How pathetic is that.) When intoxicated, I still know what it is that's happening and I can still think straight. What the hell. Where's the fun in that? I've never puked infront of anyone, never emabarrased myself in any drinking spree. When I couldn't take the alchohol anymore, I fall asleep and then again, where's the fun in that? 

I'd like to be stupendously drunk one of these days. 
 
 
Current Location: pilipinas
Current Mood: sober
 
 
( 6 comments — Post a new comment )
Soul Kisses[info]perchance on May 23rd, 2009 01:28 pm (UTC)
the feeling could be nice and liberating. but getting hung over is the worst feeling ever. haha.
ang xaris na bituin[info]xalai on May 23rd, 2009 02:36 pm (UTC)
i don't drink much but i'd like to do that with you alice. just say when. :)
Kath Leomo[info]sinabsolution on May 24th, 2009 01:49 am (UTC)
come on, you. I would like to be the one to help you stand up. say, you, me, Alich, Xaris and whoever we could drag from this city? soon. I hope you are okay.
Aparna: Myself[info]inspirethoughts on May 24th, 2009 02:08 am (UTC)
I am telling you it would not be a pleasant feeling to be drunk and after the affects.
alich: polar[info]orange_stardust on May 28th, 2009 11:49 am (UTC)
You are so right. :)
apple-eating heathen: RW colorful books[info]thisistheplan on May 24th, 2009 05:41 pm (UTC)
when? i wish I could see you soon. :)
 
 

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