Void of the memory filled though <br />Unconscious discovers linkages past <br />Soul raptures for the future to fly <br />Is it darkness with absolute emptiness <br /> <br />Fable of the master* is that having no reason <br />Why then they danced around the cup empty <br />On knowledge it was found for the nothingness <br />Just the nothingness that gives the heart enchantments <br /> <br />Of remembrance much sweeter of love than appearance <br />Of future fantasy many a lives devoured for the Houri <br />Rivers of holy water and eternity hereafter <br />In nothingness then floats in space untreaded <br />Yet invention of kind that shall let loose <br />Thinking that pleases to the fantasy in dreams <br /> <br />The lover moved around the beloved <br />A bee would learn to suckle the nectar sweet <br />A nightingale that never left the rose in bloom <br />Ears had to the reed’s depth of lament <br />Yet the presence was not unlike the rock of Sinai <br /> <br />What thirst O heart on thy tongue for long <br />A dropp of wine or else an ablution <br />Tarafa* for the love of his beloved in the end <br />The will was to make him drink to the fullest <br />Let the mother earth or holy fire or beast bird <br />To the presence sans a cup in hand how <br /> <br />I had of the passing moments in nothingness <br />Nay the ecstasy in remembrance for future <br />Anticipation was the nothing again foreseen <br />Thus longed for the beloved and the wine and verse sweet <br />Thus rebeck in the hands of that beauty smiling like moon <br />17/10/2009 <br /> <br />*Master: Refers to a fable of Jalaluddin Rumi <br /> <br />*Tarafa Ibn Al Abd: A Poet who before execution asked for wine<br /><br />Sadiqullah Khan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/nothing-that-matters/
