Why do we care for right and wrong
When love has no place
for judgement
Why do we permit guilt and shame
To interfere between
our love
Why can’t we submit to
Love most high
La—
ilaha –
Nothing more high
Illa
Hu
But love
Why do we care for right and wrong
When love has no place
for judgement
Why do we permit guilt and shame
To interfere between
our love
Why can’t we submit to
Love most high
La—
ilaha –
Nothing more high
Illa
Hu
But love
i want to go to midnight mass
i want to join anyone who remembers
remembrance helps me remember
i want to re remember Jesus
as hazret Rumi said
we must give birth to the Jesus
within
i want to hear hyms in his praise
joy indeed to the world
the savior has come
let us rejoice within
i desire for his navy robe
to grace me once again
i desire to hear his voice
i desire to see his luminous
countenance
his handsome locks
that bashful smile
perhaps in the gatherings past midnight
pure Mary’s spirit descends
unveiling her Nur
to those who remember
by virtue of remembrance
our hearts awaken from slumber
when sleigh bells sweep
across the sky
with twelve mighty avatars
stars as silver some as gold
Bethlehem rejoices
he has arrived!
the tiny babe
in a manger will speak
to the world
he is a sign
reminding us
I am AbdAllah
who brings the book
a prophet raised
so to return
with my twin
Al Muntazar
we shall establish
a heavenly kingdom
for all to rejoice
Solitude among the crowd
I live in a parallel realm
a land far off
Where solitude
Between love and beloved
is the only reality
Awakening from my internal solitude
I weep internally as see the duality
of without from within
Ya Jami’u
Gather me
Gather us
Eternally
Where no separation exists
In this world and the next
What we seek is heaven.
Heaven seeks us
When it arrives
Discard all notions of hell
As all in the face of heaven
Is hell
Believe
love’s demands are akin
to walking on shattered
glass
you’re bound to bleed
so cry at your fate
this very moment
as you’ll cry tomorrow anyways
through the incurable pain of today
if you or I come out alive
albeit dead this
very moment
none but us know this lie
we are bound to die
so cry and lament
wail and beat your chest
I’ll throw my veil
to prove my plight
like Zainab
in separation and death
from her beloved Hussayn
are we destined this
poisonous drink
Yahweh Yahweh
Ram Ram
ya Allah
in longing
in yearning
in the circus play
of pretending
acting
conspiring this
grand getaway
like con artists
partners in crime
karma will jail us
as long as we are
together
I am home
while Zulaikha cries
Yusuf prays
Jacob sighs
Solomon and Sheba
Rumi with his Mevlana
how many stories
of mad lovers
how many tears
feed the ocean
how many secrets untold
of union
lovers beware
for you to last
for your hearts
to not drift or depart
die or eternally sigh
be not sarcastic
or ridicule your beloved
as pain is poison
from beloved to beloved
dear love,
my mind infected
by a dis-ease called love
every curfew I broke
the law became salt
a pinch rather
i signed contracts
of do’s and don’ts
Kaba’ my witness
even Al madina
i fight for love
they made me
promise
I’ll never stray
or so they say
love burned every deal
into flames
and grey ash
thrown into an ocean
only to evaporate
then reappear as rain
declaring i as her ideal
her prized meal
i became prey
love the predator
who leads me astray
as per those who know not.
every promise of
never to see
nor dare to talk
i was too clever
outsmarted all
family feuds over my actions
meetings and a higher counsel
of wise men and scholars
they all knew
i was a goner
the moment they saw me
yet uttered not
to keep the peace
claimants labeled me obsessed
putting to stake the institute
called I do
little ones subliminally
confused
of a noble heart
a mad womb-an
or Mother Earth I say
I am one
I am unable to not shade
to deny the hungry
and thirsty
a traveler seeking counsel
was it my fault
hearts melted
at a simple sigh or gesture
blame me not
a few left
while most stayed
admiring the view from
a window pane
i was guarded
in house arrest
a love criminal I am
one not to detest
every where she goes
she creates turmoil
or starts a fire
an inadvertent seductress
sorry my jaan
i am what I am
resorting to caves
in solitude
I wrote to keep away
so not to stray
to hearts of saints
i fell for
from infecting hearts
from love spells in talks
minding my business
i taught like a nerd
and wrote like a hermit
love snuck into my room
once again
making me house poor and
proving my hypocrisy
a bandit I am
in fancy robes
yet believers flock
as if a savior was found
why follow a mad woman
a mad woman I declare
be with the pious the stable
the Shaikhs of The Way
rejecting my offers
we are here to stay
we are here to stay
love glanced and then whispered
i am this time
here to stay
يسألونك عن الحب
and they ask you about love
say, was not the
forbidden tree
in paradise!
lovers beware
for you to last
for your hearts
to not drift or depart
die or eternally sigh
be not sarcastic
or ridicule your beloved
as pain is poison
from beloved to beloved
love’s demands are akin
to walking on shattered
glass
you’re bound to bleed
so cry at your fate
this very moment
as you’ll cry tomorrow anyways
through the incurable pain of today
if you or I come out alive
albeit dead this
very moment
none but us know this lie
we are bound to die
so cry and lament
wail and beat your chest
I’ll throw my veil
to prove my plight
like Zainab
in separation and death
from her beloved Hussayn
are we destined this
poisonous drink
Yahweh Yahweh
Ram Ram
Ya Allah