Mystic Qalandar Poems

You are in me,
flickering at the core of silence,
a hidden flame that breathes
through the hollow of my being.
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My love, your words
Draw radiant rivers beyond time,
Flowing through sleeping valleys,
Through forests where shadow weeps—
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Remember this truth:
You were not born to fade
like mist at dawn,
nor to vanish into shadows.
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No "I" birthed the Light—
only the Light
in which "I" seemed to arise.
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On this moonless night,
I waited for the full moon.

I could not board the boat;
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Do not speak of me as gone.
I was never a fragment to be lost,
but the unbroken whole beneath all form—
the light without a wick,
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I can breathe the fragrance
of roses with myriad hues and colours
but? I can't breathe the
Rosegarden in.,
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I was once a lion
of unseen wilds—
my roar, a clap of thunder;
my gaze, a lightning strike.
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The partial intellect complained
to the Lord, the Creator:

'Why did You create man?
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Behind iron bars, the nightingale still sings
Its anthem of freedom—unbroken.
The cruelest world cannot smother
The dawn blazing bright in its heart!
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