Double Visages Poem by Mohammad Younus

DOUBLE VISAGES

Let me go into the Gulmarg of my heart
And stay in the middle of my magic eye -
Still, motionless, and thoughtless
To listen with love the mellow notes of my soul
To watch myself as a sovereign in my heart
I am alone here, with no other sitting by

I am getting in with my loneliness
Let me sleep on dream's shoulder
Swaying between my soul and God
listening to Gabriel's bells in God's light

If God allowed the people to barge into my heart
They would see the seething pain in me
They would see branded on the walls of my heart
The deep scars that I got when I was grounded down
They would see my true being, as I sit inside
Not my masked being, as I stand outside
They would see me with double visages: - -
One in the open, other deep within
They would know how I shine all the time
They would know how I sing all the time
They would know I am the sovereign lord

I am the only one to witness:
My power, my might, my sound, my light
I am my own witness, I realise
It is not the mythology, it is a reality
But it is as difficult to know,
As to pass through a needle-eye

Mykoul