Micropoetry

I ask you, Lord, for all these things
I know so very well I don’t deserve
For health and wealth and maghfirah
And knowledge that You give without reserve

Allah, I make my plea
In these blessed words
Of Your blessed Nabi:

You are the greatest forgiver
And You love to forgive
So forgive me

My sins like a dusty leaf
Your forgiveness like dew at dawn
My sins, the dark of night
Your forgiveness, morning song

That we are rewarded
For sleep in these days
By One whom sleep doesn’t take
Should help us be humble
In so many ways
Each moment that we are awake

How can we miss the beauty in
The signs of Your Beneficence

The twitter of the birds at dawn
The sound of children’s laughter
The sight of dew and falling rain
The sweet petrichor after

Give me the heart
To study my charts
Before I head out to sea

The current’s defined
By a wind with a mind
Of it’s own unfortunately

Intense is the Nūr
Of Your Rahmah that powers
The bearers of The Throne
To soak in the showers
Of Rahmatan lil ‘ālamīn

When I looked for wisdom it was
Entirely hidden from me because
I lacked the knowledge to see it
Rabbiy zidnī ‘ilman Ya Muqīt

You told him to stay
Away from the tree
He didn't

So you sent him away
Then made him a tree
Now isn't

That Your brand of Rahmah
That here I am, a twig on a ride
Tending to my trees on the other side

Make my heart unto Your Word
An instrument of sight
Like sweetly singing morning bird
When comes the foremost light