love in action
you remained
love paralyzed
you left
love in action
you remained
love paralyzed
you left
She appeared to you
as love personified
through love’s gaze
she became love in action
healing the unhealed layers
of trauma and sorrow
she loved you unconditionally
more than blood
she believed in you
like none before
She sees your light
in full glory
you were healed by her touch
like no tomorrow
Love tested your loyalty
becoming paralysis personified
her inability to be
love in action faked her paralysis
to see how real your claimed love was
When unconditional became conditional
When shadows assimilated with being
When fire and water became lovers
When separation brought no pain
When heart saw nothing but pure light
It was time for us to leave
I fell to your feet
and offered my soul
enslaved in your love
I know not more
that fire burning within thee
is burning within her
now watch them burn
fire with fire
at home
at last
Legitimacy unnecessary
for the legitimate
it is what it is
validation unnecessary
for the validators
it is what it is
Time cascaded
to a timeless timeline
I see hooves and dusty clouds
wind absent of breath
a voiceless desert
I enter a tent
of silent murmurs
incantations of devoted lovers
offering water to parched lips
met by refusal and silent sighs
sleepless nights
children’s cries
I question why
beneath a crimson sky
I witness stars lament
a moon in seclusion
concealed in clouds
she cries hussain
as I cry Zainab
I pray for rain
to remove this pain
Euphrates refuses to evaporate
the scorching sun denies shade
a natural paradox
of inverted truths
I bear witness
upon these sands
of ancestral lands
to a timeless era
as I close my eyes
undeniably I was present
as I am now
as a witness to retell the untold
let me remind you
I am a timeless soul
this love contagious
infectious
sheer poison
inebriating
keep drinking
alone on an island
floating in aqua water
whisper your secret
beneath the aqua waves
she whispered the secret
water it is
i love you
between the two
oceans of annihilation
fana if you may
I was asked to stay
to remain still
for those who enter
not by will
but by order
as a keeper
a trustee
a guide
holding space
for those who seek
the secret between
the two oceans of annihilation