Despair
Once I was suddenly attacked in my heart
I tried to speak loudly but failed
I tried again but failed
As I spoke from heart and belly
Once I suddenly got struck
How should I stand before
My students are my audience
I am on the stage
I lectured with full of my voice
Suddenly it was stopped by fear or despair
Now after thirteen years the condition is better
But I faint often
When it rises in my thought
It can’t be exposed
But the fire burned in my heart
Make me cry silent
My breath stops
Life is too short
I think and again despair.
Raindrops
Raindrops are falling on the ground
New grasses and saplings grow
With new leaves that spread on the branches
Roots creep under the ground
Branches want to touch the sky
A source of new birth
A love smiles on the objects of nature
A peace pours on the earth
Raindrops are falling on the ground
You are my love my raindrop fall on me
To enlighten and spread around
I always keep my eyes open to you
O my raindrop pour on me my bliss.
The Ring of Heart
Don’t go away my heart
don’t stop here
hold my hand
be in my heart
don’t make me cry
don’t shut my lights
only your advance to me
it builds a castle
can make a world
not to moan always in my hut
we are here
my love, my soul
by being with us
want to have the hug
your lips are in my lips
your eyes are in my eyes
O my love, my beloved
I plus you, you plus me
a mixture of the parts
Spark the world
we see better, we live laughter
let us find out the way
let us wear the ring of heart.
Eid-Ul-Adha
I bought a goat yesterday
the day after tomorrow is Eid-Ul-Adha
I’ll sacrifice my goat
in the name of Allah
we rejoice the day with much enchantment and joy
it’s a tradition of our prophet Ibrahim (Ah.)
followed by us in the Muslim world
that makes together in the Kaaba
we all go to Mecca to celebrate Hajj
that has a chance to get relief
from all kinds of sins
gathered by us in the whole life
O my Allah, please pardon me and all of us
I am going to sacrifice the goat
in the name of you, that you told us
please receive and make us fresh, neat and clean.
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Me
My heart aches, aches like Keats
but not the same
as he had tuberculosis
my body trembles
I become dumb and dull
don’t like to speak
don’t like to go ahead
legs lag behind
as mind does not respond
though always free to move
chained back to back
how should I kneel
how should I fly?