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Unyielding

Khalid Mukhtar · January 27, 2023 · Leave a Comment

Khalid, come a mendicant
With nothing to your name
But unabating love for him
Whom angelkind proclaim

Then leave a mendicant no more
With heart and will so steeled
To bear all brand of wound and scar
To despair never yield

Convergence

Khalid Mukhtar · January 26, 2023 · Leave a Comment

You’re in his flock
Now heed his call
Or find yourself astray

The ticking clock
Will brings us all
Up on the longest Day

Reclamation

Khalid Mukhtar · January 25, 2023 · Leave a Comment

Come together drafty soul
In away from wind and tide
Think of times when you were whole
With no shrapnel in your side

Warm and childlike innocence
Feet and seashells on the shores
When you breathed a love intense
And a name would soothe your sores

Let the arrogances die
Die away while you repair
Salawaat in every sigh
Scent of tasbeeh in the air

Bulbul

Khalid Mukhtar · January 15, 2023 ·

Morning dew heaven’s play
Washes earth as if to say
Here’s another chance to get you right

Basmala in the air
Devastating dark despair
Hope in bulbul’s song and heron’s flight

Inevitably

Khalid Mukhtar · January 1, 2023 ·

Sometimes
Like that weightless moment
Of first light
Splitting day and night

A memory returns
Spellbinding
Rewinding
Revealing though blinding

A sign you want to ignore
But end up finding
Because you can’t afford
Another lapse

Loserdom

Khalid Mukhtar · December 24, 2022 ·

What sort of servant you khalid
Receiving your Master’s command
With a “why” on your mind
That is burning to find
Out His reasons that you understand

Your lordly submission is flat
Just what sort of servant is that

Wakeful Little Thing

Khalid Mukhtar · December 14, 2022 ·

Success is strange
Sometimes it lies
A quiet creature
Unasleep

You see it less
With passing hours
But there it is
Still unasleep

You mourn your mountain
Losses with
No clue it’s lying
Unasleep

There lies a lesson
Unacknowledged
Underrated
Unasleep

Be you in awe
Of little wins
That help you vanquish
Little sins

Be you in awe
Of little creatures
Unintruding
Unasleep

Fa hum laa yubsirūn

Khalid Mukhtar · December 9, 2022 ·

It is a matter of intelligence in the end
gleaned from a cosmic celestial blend
an interconnectedness sent 
on a heart free of freedoms
that speaks from a Word and a Will 
inhibiting senses intending ill

It is in the end just so
for he walks past them
but they do not see him go

Tuning In

Khalid Mukhtar · December 8, 2022 ·

Before you wander off with plans
To listen to your heart
Be sure to know its voices so
You can tell them apart

A lifetime of learning
Before you’re discerning

Unthawed

Khalid Mukhtar · November 10, 2022 ·

Sometimes a fleeting memory
Stops by to freeze the stream of time
A baby perched upon a knee
A racing urchin striped with grime

The crunch of traffic unabated
Held back by a passing train
That forces every weary eye
To softly blink and heed the rain
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