O cupbearer, hold me quickly if you mean to steady me, otherwise the intoxication of cannabis is sweeping my feet away and carrying me off.
The poet calls out to the Saqi with charming urgency, pleading to be steadied before all control slips away. The high—described here as the dizzying swirl of hemp (*banj*)—is so overwhelming that his feet are practically floating off the ground. In the realm of mystical love, it reflects that ecstatic surrender where the mind dissolves, and only the beloved's anchoring touch can keep the soul from flying completely away.
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