**the Unseen Poem by Sadiqullah Khan

Is it the reality that we seest affront
Manifest is the face of the being
The beloved though has many shapes
Every day appears in form variant
Constancy still is awaited in steps
The gaze is another and talks different
To the rival smileth to the lover detesteth
Showeth the door when complaineth the lover
Says thou art the rival indeed of the lovers
Loves tribulations has any one seen
Has any one touched the morning breeze
The wind that floweth from the north
Has any one captured the red of the sunset
The moon that comes nearer on fourteenth
Has any one tied the waves of the sea
The unseen music that ariseth from rebeck
Has the reed been broken to see
Where from ariseth the lament of heart
Has any one seen the angel to the prophet
In prophecy for the paradise and afterwards
Love has any one on the bosom sighted
The beloved speaketh the pledge but where
Goes the song of love from the lover
Has any one seen the unseen
Known the unknown but in speculations
The beloved might have smiled to the lover
Has any one asked the beloved for the truth
In the unknown mist in the sea of life
Our lives towards destiny no one has seen
The mysterious unknown in the subjectivity
We to ourselves define that pleaseth
The belief in the unknown taketh us
Like floating in the air yet we know not
25/4/2009