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Word, like wind, cuts through you / Withers all but true you

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Diving

Khalid Mukhtar · February 2, 2020 · Leave a Comment

Respect the sea of knowledge vast and deep
How deep you go entirely depends
Upon how well you’ve learned the skills to keep
Yourself and you from suffering the bends

Emergency

Khalid Mukhtar · January 30, 2020 · Leave a Comment

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 · Leave a Comment

The soul is your diamond
The rest is glass

Rowing

Khalid Mukhtar · January 28, 2020 · Leave a Comment

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

Unhidden

Khalid Mukhtar · January 24, 2020 · Leave a Comment

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 · Leave a Comment

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 · Leave a Comment

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 · Leave a Comment

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

Sun

Khalid Mukhtar · January 16, 2020 · Leave a Comment

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

It’s Simple

Khalid Mukhtar · January 15, 2020 · Leave a Comment

I often host thoughts complicated
And think my intellect a curse
Then find that the more complicated my thoughts
The more complicated my verse

And the more complicated the tools I employ
Entertaining my guests symbiotic

Thank God for them who remind me there’s nothing
Complicated ‘bout being idiotic
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