Fountain Of Eternity Poem by Sadiqullah Khan

The legend has
That there is a fountain
Of eternity
And a sage
Only one sage has visited that fountain
Located in the depths and the farthest corners
Of this earth
And only that sage
The invisible sage can take you there

In my search
From the deceptions and mirages
Of the story
And my desire for the eternity
And thinking that I will reach
The fountain and on the way will meet the sage
A mirage
A travel
With little belongings and my imaginations

From the seductive looks of the eyes
The eyes that told me the stories
Of centuries
Learned and transmitted through generations
The smile so innocent
And I entered the jungle
The thick clouded jungle of the hairs
The aroma spreading all in the air
Through the shiny cheek
And lips like golden cups
Of red wine
Into the steppes of that magnificence
Smooth as silk
The peaks
Like peaks of the poles
With signs
Of feeding the humanity
And every living being
Having sucked and eaten
To sustain the tenderness in life
Nature’s bestowment
Stolen
From that small
Tip
Like a child suckling…

The sage in wonders
But now
I was in the vastness of the desert
An unending desert
My limbs unable to carry me forward
For the anticipation of discovery
The deserts and the deserts luscious curves
Storms and nights
Illuminated with full moon
The sage and me
In dust storm
Could not see each other

The rise and fall of the desert
The heat and cold of the dunes
Dunes chiseled by nature
To ultimate perfection
Downwards curves
Shapes and a small pit
Where demons of love reside
In the middle of the desert
Another mound
The rage in me increases
And the bushes
Some unexplainable
The pruning
And the edges made to minutest details
Between the Greek columns
Exuding exuberance and musky perfumes
Silky smoothness of the columns
Made to ultimate craftsmanship
The artist must have burned his fingers
The smoke and fire
The agony and the ecstasy
Nature at its fullest
Inspiration

The gorgeousness
The house of azar
Azar the sculptor
The fountain of eternity
For nature wanted to present
To the human race
Something unsurpassable
The diva and the goddess
The matriarch
And the one worshiped
The symbol of fertility
And the shapes from another world
The mystery and the enigma
The black and the white
The color and the colorless
Nature the artist
With gods own hands

In that gorgeousness
The sage led me
The sage invisible
To the fountain of eternity
Flowing with sweet waters
And juices of life
Waiting in anticipation
For discovery
To honor life
And the demons of love
Now let loose
In deep embrace
With the vastness of the nature
I drank
From the fountain of eternity