There’s good, there’s bad
And then there’s just sad
Like what Disney did to Pooh
Add gallons of water
And sugar: you’ve got a
Flat tale that attaches to you
Micropoetry
Mud
Allah save my eyes
So my soul won’t go blind
And my ears so my soul
Won’t be deaf to Your Word
Ya Rahīm save my tongue
So my heart can remind
Every part of my being
Of why I am dirt
Bring me Ya Tawwāb
To tears that matter
For dirt without water
Is given to scatter
Tasbeeh
As we mourn for those
Departed and free
We send our tasbeeh
To plant them a tree
So their garden grows
Unexplainably
With verdant remembrances
For them to see
إِنَّا لِلَّٰهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ
Inside The Box
In the realm of guided thinking
_______________________________
| Ingenuity is in the rocks \
| At the confluence of the arts \
| Extract it and enlarge the box \
| With all of the same parts /
| That we may think within /
|_______________________________/
Heart
Now if you think your heart
That shattered into pieces
Can never come together
Continuing to beat
Then think about the man
Who in the year of sorrow
Sat down beneath a palm one day
To cleanse his bloodied feet
صلى الله عليه وسلم
Aligning
The ten are upon you
Each day is designed
To help you to gather
Your body, your mind
Your fragmented soul
And get them aligned
With the pulses of Nūr
His Grace has defined
Khalid: get aligned
Safe
Ilāhi save me from
The fool I am now
And the fool I may become
Order
Every field and mountain
Every blade of grass
Every fish and bird and beast
And every tree I pass
Everything in order
Carefully designed
To harmonize a soul
With its cogitating mind
Sole Ownership
You know what they say
The ultimate con
Is to make you believe
You can never be conned
You wander past whispers
That honor your pride
With all of your dignity
Thrown to the side
Go seek out a slave
Who fathoms the soul
Knows how it’s connected
And what makes it whole
Side Effects
Now don’t go competing
To have the last word
It’s a drug some prescribe
Though its side effects hurt:
Long vacuous hours
Anxiety and you’re
Entirely obsessed with
Delusions of grandeur