After Searching for my Beloved

After Searching for my Beloved

Shattered in tears

I left Damascus

The once home to him

I confessed on that threshold

That my Love killed you

My lust for fame was at last quenched

When the well drank

Your blood

My schizophrenic thoughts

Ventured far beyond Mt. Kaf

My dark soul

Usurped the Protector

They called me mystic

While I was dancing in fear

My namesake turned nemesis

Disclosed my secret

O Rumi…

Shield me from myself

2012-11-19

The Land Stained Yellow

The Land Stained Yellow

In my utter despair

When on the brink of destruction

I saw a path

Heading towards my eternal dream

My Soprano –my peace; then,

I lost my audacity

And slept on the rail line:

I hide myself

In red duct tape room

To find my eerie solace

In blasphemous books

Crying for the last cootamundra wattle

Inside my heart

O mountains be merciful

To the new madman in town

2012-11-17