Yazd
I hear you
I long to enter your city
the ruins of the annihilates
of love
the lovers who destroyed
themselves
for love
those who worshipped love
I shall visit their abodes
and sit in silence
I shall collect the sand from their
resting places
to mix in your pure waters
and drink till intoxication
overpowers my being
Archive | October 2020
God; A Jealous Lover
I conclude that longing is a death in itself
I do conclude the God is a jealous lover
How many a time has He caused me to fall in love
With his friends and beloveds
Glimpses of Him
Shades of his radiance
Causing my heart to melt
In the lover
I became lover and beloved
Every single time
You caused me to love madly
What I detested most
All that I resisted I embraced with passion
flames engulfed consuming my breath
My being in set to fire
This tease of the heart
Where the lover appears
As a guest
Masked in absolute pretence
A blatant lie claiming to stay awhile
The lover carved her name
On the walls of my being
Her breath heard all day and night
I know only one breath
The inhale and exhale with the lover
Yet the beloved nowhere in sight
Haunted by an empty room
I see her dreamy eyes in every glance
Why do you prefer to torture
A fool
The wise must be imprisoned
Not the naive like this one
Her aroma lingers
Perfuming my sighs
Embalmed in this love
Only to be emptied
I ask you why
Over and over shamelessly
I fell for one after the other
Seeking You
By the tease of the lover
You are the cause and the effect
Of my heart trauma
It seems you take pleasure
In the pain of a lover
Is that why you created fire
Consumed are the lovers
In earthly flames
So you may purify me with tears
Plunge me into the ocean of love
To be drowned eternally
In your waters
Heaven’s Breeze
I am admiring the view
of your soul
as I think of you
you appear instantly
your glance and smile
heaven’s breeze
I am admiring the view
of myself through you
Journey From Myself to Myself
In this journey
From myself to myself
Is an unveiling
Layers of me that remained
Strangers all my life
I am uncovering the unknown
Rooms that exist within
Estranged I was
To my own abode
Unaware who resided within
In this journey from myself to myself
I am lead to caves within
That await my entry
To discover guides
Assigned to my soul
One by one
As I delve deeper
As I approach these
Illuminated being
Who smile in silence
Who teach through breath
And guide by gentle whispers
On this journey from myself to myself
I am unraveling the unlimited
Versions of one
These versions appear
As guests of the heart
Yet in this journey I have learned that every guest
Is none but me
All that exists within
Is none but me
Every guide disguised
Is none but me
In this journey I know and realize
All is one and one is all
I am me and you are me
No reality but one.
Abandon Literalism
why was it that when you gave up literalism
in the name of liberalism
you continue to judge words
and images
just because you failed
to understand
the possible unlimited
potentialities
contained within
knowing full well
that we are not absolute beings
as far as comprehension
is concerned
Wine of Shiraz
poetic being
do not hasten to express
allow emotion to ferment
at times repress
to compoud the effect
in the cellar of your heart
the aged wine of Shiraz
compares not
with the Chardonnay of
yesterday
then seek permission
from the soul
to pour as Saqi
your wine in words
to the guests
of your Divaan
Life Force
I sold my soul
to this light source
who became
my life force
Subsistence
ocean and water
subsist as one
if you’re the ocean
and I am water
then give me air
There Are No Goodbyes
The pain was not
about your departure
into the realm of eternity
rather the inability
to say goodbye
that one last glance
a smile, your voice
anything would do
before you left
without a hint
as vapor vanishes
eternally
Every time I missed you
I assumed tomorrow
tomorrow never came
today a messenger
approached me
whispering your name
he said you’ve left
into the abode of eternity
Mevlana tells us
there are no goodbyes
but my heart feels otherwise
if I could reach out
to grasp your hand
embrace you
to see you smile
crossing the veils of
eternal miles
I would.
Oh beloveds who love
who know not but love
in this path we call love
wait not for tomorrow
to view the moon or sun
as all is now
express your heart
to everyone
when you meet and part
consider this counsel
as an oath in eternity
from the one who failed
to say goodbye
I Owe You Nothing But Love
How about you dance
on the bare sands
to my heart beat
while I drift
into a trance
let the stars
be a witness
while the moon
seeks her mistress
you kept her awake
loosing sleep
sleepless nights
who owes who
