Boulevard

It was an abysmal hole

Murky, pitch-black dent

And I couldn’t see

I was blind

I was behind

When a wild hand grasped

Leading me to a course

Deeper, duskier

It was atrocious

Dreadful

As I saw a blotch

Emerging

On my tiny heart

From one stain

To another

Consuming my soul

And as my eyes see

But my heart is blind

Then again

My God is Kind

He grabbed me from behind

He guides me to run

Towards a graceful boulevard

Egress from the dark hole

Just like a dying body

He revived me to life

He fixed me aright

He nourishes my heart

And walks by my side

Leaving my soul at peace

And heart at ease.

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P.S.: Alhamdulillah. Thank you Allah.

I tripped and You caught me. I fell and You grabbed me. I forgot and You reminded me.

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“Allah is the ally of those who believe. He brings them out from darknesses into the light. And those who disbelieve - their allies are Taghut. They take them out of the light into darknesses. Those are the companions of the Fire; they will abide eternally therein”

 Al-Baqarah; 257

Far Away

As the wind blowing

And the trees growing

As the birds ’re twittering

And the days fleeting

Routinely running

Uninterruptedly rolling

Amidst the normalcy

There's a heart aching

Longing and wondering

In a dark solitary desert

Created by his own fancy

Walking aimlessly

Searching for a diamond

With a clue but no answer

In his lifelong journey

And again

He stumbled at the juncture

And as the distance

Flaring and broadening

Pushing the wanderer

Away from the shore

Drowning in his own fantasy

In the middle of the ocean

Gasping for air

Leaving him despair

Hoping for a miracle hand

To come and snatch the wanderer

Away from the wilderness

But hey

Who's moving?

You or Him?

As the steps breaking

And the ocean deepening

As he keeps walking

To the opposite route

Away from his God

Forgetting, neglecting

To the unerring veracity

Of the one to be titled

A Creator and a creation

A Master and a slave

And still..

the audacity hitting

You felt far from Him?

وَنَحْنُ أَقْرَبُ إِلَيْهِ مِنْ حَبْلِ الْوَرِيدِ

"and We are closer to him than [his] jugular vein"

Qur'an; 50:16

P.S ..written partly in the sky, partly on the earth.

Khaled Siddiq - Pain