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Archives for January 2020

Emergency

Khalid Mukhtar · January 30, 2020 ·

Sincerity is oxygen
For the soul

So if it gets rare
Up there, let me ask
That you take some care
To put on your mask

Before assisting the person
Next to you

Carbon

Khalid Mukhtar · January 29, 2020 ·

The soul is your diamond
The rest is glass

Rowing

Khalid Mukhtar · January 28, 2020 ·

Here’s the river
There’s the boat
If you really
Want to go
You had better
Learn to row

Learn to pull
So you can push
And practice till
You hear no whoosh

Or you could paddle

Wayward

Khalid Mukhtar · January 26, 2020 ·

If you never miss a turn
And you’re absolutely sure
That there’s nothing left to learn
Is it time to lose your way

Unhidden

Khalid Mukhtar · January 24, 2020 ·

Seek protection
From being oppressed
But seek it much more
From being oppressor

You see, while the former
Would have you distressed
The latter may hide you
From the intercessor

And that’s how you get
Infinitely depressed

Broken Fences

Khalid Mukhtar · January 22, 2020 ·

Lord, let me find the means to make amends
And let the hearts I’ve broken be repaired
For I see that my salvation depends
On how my wretched tongue and hands have fared

Patch It!

Khalid Mukhtar · January 18, 2020 ·

Let the lack of knowledge
Qualify your attitude
Patch that hole in your boat
And do it best with gratitude

Boring

Khalid Mukhtar · January 17, 2020 ·

I’ve sometimes found that wisdom
Makes itself at home
On the softest sigh
In a droning tone
Where no colors fly
And seconds turn to stone
Seeking out its seekers

If you’re found
You’ll stick around

Gallery

Khalid Mukhtar · January 17, 2020 ·

Enter your gallery
And look around
At all the paintings
Of everything by you
If anything, why, you
Must tear it all down

But wait, leave the walls
Better than you found them
Flatter than silence
Cleaner than light

Exit your gallery
Just slink away
Rouse no suspicion
Bounce for no fight

But, mind
Don’t leave the trash
Behind

Sun

Khalid Mukhtar · January 16, 2020 ·

Think how much barakah lies in
A word that keeps the sun
Away from the horizon

The day that Yusha’ won
Is just a sign we rise in
The shadow of the sun
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