The Incessant Wanderer (an earlier poem)

Subject : The Incessant Wanderer

Posted Date: : 24 Aug 2007, 14:54 (1st posted MySpace)

This was written by a younger Shafi ...a bit of prose..circa 18 years old...

The Incessant WandererThe sun turns slowly on it's axle,

Shadows of a Wanderer grow longer and longer,

Merge and Disappear.

For no existence have they in night.

Night's young breath on the land,

What WONDER..

 

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Think my dear friend,

Ponder the WANDERER..?

It appear'th that the sun turns

about our home, the Earth.

But no, this is an illusion,

perpetrated by the master Trickster;

 Man's Ego; on the Earths Revolution.

Shadows of a Wanderer.

What a multitude of shadows,

for one supposed being?

Peach, lilac and iridescent blue,

play and dance in heavens above.

I glow with the knowledge that

mirth and joy still exist in the heavens,

where Angels pray.

What Wonder! What Wanderer?

They merge and disappear.

No light, no shadow at night.

Nights young breath. Such beauty!

The Wanderer incessantly moves

through the Earth.

Stepping with giant strides.

Commanded never to stop.

He is shrouded in dark, He is Night!

The Shadows are his cloak,

which fall about him, long and dark.

Separate and distinct,

Yet never-the-less, merging into one-

Himself.

As the sun descends,

Those shadows merge and extend toward the Infinite.

They bow and prostrate before their Lord, the ONE.

Who else commands day and night,

Shadow of Earth on Earth,

But the Sustainer.

Most Powerful and Glorious.

For the Earth abounds with HIS Mercies,

and most beautiful of names.

Uttered by Man and lost,

never-the less finding it's destination.

"Ya- ALLAH !"

The End..

By Mohamed Shafi Bachelani..

The Imagery used in this Poem.. is based upon the Imagery found in the Qur'an.