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The Sixth of Rabi Al-Awwal

Khalid Mukhtar · September 22, 2023 · Leave a Comment

Some days it feels the journey isn’t worth it
Those are the days to dig your heels in deep
And if you need a sign look to the earth, it
Keeps going while the going’s there to keep
So take a breath my Qasimi sojourner
And give your weary eye a little rest
Seek out your willow that will shade a learner
Whose body mind and soul are in the quest
Think to when he the best of all creation
Reclined against that old devoted tree
His face supplying all the recreation
That his companions would ever need
    May leisure quench your spirit yielding strength
    To grow and serve throughout the journey’s length

Tuesday is Garbage Day

Khalid Mukhtar · September 20, 2023 · Leave a Comment

Lonely? How can you be lonely when you’re not alone!
Desperate? How can you despair if you’re able to breathe!
Grieving? Tears for that.
Happy? Laugh and be glad.
Angry? Sit down. Takes the sea to extinguish the sun.
Bored? That’s on you, and we’re done.

Wings

Khalid Mukhtar · September 16, 2023 · Leave a Comment

You’ve locked yourself inside a cage of gold
And thrown the key into the flaming sun
It’s burning yet you feel the dark and cold
Afraid to see the things you have become

But souls are birds that cages cannot settle
The wings of faith can cut through any metal

That

Khalid Mukhtar · September 15, 2023 · Leave a Comment

That
Gush of wind

That
Blade of grass

That
Breath of air

That
Has to pass

So
What is next

May
Come to be

Such
Is Divine

Crea-
tivity

He
Is with you

One
Everywhere

You’re
Fragmented

Lost
In the air

Know
He’s with you

Al-
Ways with you

That
Is more true

Than
You are you

That

The Dinner

Khalid Mukhtar · September 14, 2023 · Leave a Comment

The prophet stood up in his mosque
“Will someone entertain my guest?”
A hand went up and that’s how it
Began

The man - he rushed home to his wife
“A guest is coming home tonight”
Alarmed, she said “we only have
A bite”

He thought for one moment or two
A plan emerging in his mind
Looked at his wife and said “Here’s what
We’ll do

“Let’s kiss the children off to bed
That sleep their hunger douse, then we’ll
Turn down the lamps as we sit to
The spread

“And wife, we will pretend to chew
With skill, we will put on a show
So that our guest who has his fill
Won’t know”

And thus they carried out their plan
The guest arrived and ate the bread
Then left, the couple prayed and went 
To bed

The night went by, the day arrived
The Prophet saw the man and cried
With joy from news that came on angel
Wings

For one attracted by the nūr
Had found the good companion’s house
And saw the wealth a humble servant
brings

Knots

Khalid Mukhtar · September 8, 2023 · Leave a Comment

You're broken and sad
And feeling quite bad
The tears spring forth from a sigh

Your chest is constricted
Your lips cannot stop
A whimper becoming a cry

This grief comes like rain
And falls where it falls
E'en deserts get their share of showers

Take heart in the faith
That this too shall pass
In seconds or minutes or hours

The prophets were tested
Like no one before
So know that your grief is a trial

In shukr and hamd
Send salawāt galore
Upon him for a little while

On His Baldness

Khalid Mukhtar · September 5, 2023 · Leave a Comment

Why so much love for them that part from you
They give no thought to how they’ve grieved your mind
Such love for things that leave the way they do
But not for them that choose to stay behind
Don’t shun the shine upon your blessed bean
God’s plan is in all things that shed and fall
Be hair or fur or leaves that once were green
They all submit obeying nature’s call
So why so sad my khalid at this loss
When all it really is, is wholesome gain
You know that your beloved won’t be cross
If you yourself have chosen to remain
  Some surfaces are meant to be some day
  A field of cranium for children’s play

Hanging Around

Khalid Mukhtar · August 12, 2023 · Leave a Comment

There’s a stack of air
Just hanging there
Between the Japanese maple
And the lazy white hydrangea
It’s such a stack of air

It’s a lovely shape
With a fragrant flair
Fully taking in its staple
Of the morning sunshine can’t you
Just taste that snack of air

I don’t think it’s moved
From it’s leafy lair
Where it appears to stay still
Encased by petal candy, oh
I’m done.

Stay On It

Khalid Mukhtar · August 10, 2023 · Leave a Comment

All the world is a sign
That a hope is your way
If the only thing you fear
Is an act where you stray
That displeases the One

With a will that melts glaciers
And freezes the sun
Cling well to that hope
And nurture that fear
Till the journey is done

Don’t Answer The Door

Khalid Mukhtar · August 8, 2023 · Leave a Comment

Despair comes knocking often in these times
Its droll and dreary beat upon your door
Conjuring up images of your crimes
Until your shattered heart can take no more
khalid acknowledge your deficiencies
While there’s no good in lying to yourself
Your mad frustrations only serve to please
The demons wishing ill upon your health
But sit upon a rock and let the air
Remind you of the one who’s heart was filled
With grief that his beloved wasn’t there
To nurse him when a rain of stones had stilled
  The heavens sending prayers upon a man
  Content revived and pleased with Allah’s plan
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