Sadiqullah Khan - Reflections in Illusions

Speak truth in the dark
Studded like stars
The veils in folds
Seven thousand in number
The penetration needed
The gaze of highest intensity
Beyond time and space

How would have the splash
And the music of water
The splendid water lily
Had the scents of jasmine
From the back of antelope
When the last breath
Before the explosion
Of the mounted masculine
That creates

The music was celestial
At the ascent
That might have had
Notes we discover
A string of rebeck
Or the hollowness of reed
Hearkened

One such note
Half breathe
Your body turned fluid
In ethereal evaporation
The dark feminine cloud
The dark womb of earth
Into smoke in waters
By beast birds in space
Like aroma of wild flowers

The intensity of love
Was the song
That leaning neck
On the shoulder of beloved
There are reflections in illusions
For the eyes to behold
Of the unseen

Sadiqullah Khan

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