The Dryness And The Rain

first came a strong wind, ripping off rooftops like bottlecaps and bending lampposts down to the ground then came a thunder shattering my windows but you were not that strong wind or that might sound that left the barn in shambles, the rabbit hutch in ruins the split-rail fence splintered and the curtains torn, all the cows out from the pastures trampling on the pumpkins and the horses from their stables ambling in the corn Isa ruhu-lah 'alaihis-salat was-salam I've flown unnoticed just behind you like an insect and I've watched you like a falcon from a distance as you pa*sed then swooped down to be nearer to the traces of your footsteps to pick the fallen grain from the dirt beneath the crooked gra*s and I'm gonna take that grain and I'm gonna crush it all together into the flour of a bread as small and simple and sincere as when the dryness and the rain finally drink from one another the gentle cup of mutual surrender tears A fish swims through the sea, while the sea is in a certain sense contained within the fish! Ah, what am I to think of what the writing of a thousand lifetimes could not explain if all the forest trees were pens and all the oceans ink? nastagh-firuka ya Hokan ya Dhal-Jalah wal-Ikram Isa ruhu-lah 'alaihis-salat was-salam ya Halim, ya Qahhar ya Muntaqim, ya Ghaffar! la Ilaha ilallahu, Allahu Akbar!