Too Long Forth Poem by Sadiqullah Khan

The earth did not move
Nor stars changed in heavens
Inner cosmos was in revolution
He decided never to get up
Or know the truth

Since he had "Gone Forth"

He ultimately extinguished the flame
He will have no desires
He had become "Gone"
He was not unlike a dead man walking

In the quest of knowing
To understand pain
To escape it
Recurring life as samsara
Dust he saw every where
His sleeping wife and son
Abandoned

He might have attained the highest plains
Of nothingness

But he might have missed
The heat of life
To be a human
To laugh
Smile
And weep sometimes

He might have been
Telling someone
And knowing
That why he had been doing all this

He might have longed for love
In his immeasurables
But he had gone
Too Long Forth

July 23,2010