THE ETERNAL JOURNEY

High on the jagged peaks
where the falcon rests for a while
The muezzan on the minaret of an empty mosque
calls all nature
To him shall all return
This caravan from the begining of time
These indomitable travellers
Their hopes and fears
But why are you preplexed my lonely soul ?
Is there no end to your sorrows?
Ah ! that gleam of light
Is that from within or without ?
I do not know
Yet the glimmer of light nourishes me with love
and life and faith
and I keep treading on

THE EYES

Your eyes are two deep brown pools
in which a man may drown and loose his soul
They say that eyes are the windows of the soul
Who knows what the soul is
But I did discover the reality of love
It is the annihilation of one's self
in the infinity of your depths
Or is it one's rebirth in your timelessness

KNOWING IS BEING

Knowing is being
is a saying known to all
Yet to know a being
who knew while he was
The self, the secret glimmer of God
within us and without
To be a oneness
where there is no more of I and Thou
A oneness, a oneness
Glory Glory Hallelujah!

ONE MOMENT OF NOTHINGNESS

One moment of nothingness!
Nay, a moment is much too much just a nothingness
Who is it that is conscious of this nothingness?
It must be the one the all
that excludes all manifestations
all creation - all space and time
Life and light
There is no thou, hence no I
No creator or the creation
No being, no begining, no end
No sifat, no Zat
Yes - Allah O Akbar

THE LOTUS SMILE

That fleeting smile
like the twinkle of a star
That flashing smile
spreading cheer and joy
That radiant smile
like a lotus in bloom
That enigmatic smile
rending the ravised heart
And above all that smile
arising from the soul at peace
gives life and hope to the pure and weary

RESONANCE

"We have not created the world in vain"
I was watching the face of a mature lady
She appeared to be the goddess of innocence
There was another adolescent girl close by
I asked the first lady "Look at her"
And there was a resonance between the two - of innocence
And the atmosphere, I felt exploded with innocence
I am innocent
Beauty, you look at a beautiful face
All beauty and oneness
The beauty in you resonates
All but beauty remains and the beautiful vanishes
And so it is true of goodness and truth
The expanse and freedom of oneness
Dawns like the dawn and hence
"We have not created the world in vain"