Sing Fakeer

your song

can grow love anywhere

it has wings

to reach the outermost stars

your music

speaks to the One i love

the secrets

i cannot utter

in words

i have become

an open, aching heart

filled with a turning,

twisting pain

that flames

my perpetual longing-blaze

curving, lengthening,

kissing the sky

calling out

the one Name it knows

sing, fakeer,

sing that Name

carry me

on the wings of your song

straight

into my Beloved’s heart

25^th July 2010

shahbano aliani