Bare Feet Poem by Sadiqullah Khan

When I embraced the night
The night that was to be
A night in thousand
And one nights

In the deep memory of your love
When the divine angels flew
In the sky

After long years of separation
And in my infinite gaze
Like the cheek of that little girl
Turned red with some red color

So were the stars on the face of the sky
That night when my hairs did flow
In cold breeze lying on the vast contours
On the desert of your beauty

And when in all rejection
Of what I have attained
In my evolution when my feet did grow
Barefooted I traversed your beauty

In my symbols and the web of relations
Did not you realize the moments
The ultimate freedom from the agony of self

The night better than thousand and one nights
When I saw you
I was ultimate nature
With no time and space
The last lesson I remember was
“Come to my door with bare feet
O ye seeker of love”
8/10/2008