The earth did not move <br />Nor stars changed in heavens <br />Inner cosmos was in revolution <br />He decided never to get up <br />Or know the truth <br /> <br />Since he had "Gone Forth" <br /> <br />He ultimately extinguished the flame <br />He will have no desires <br />He had become "Gone" <br />He was not unlike a dead man walking <br /> <br />In the quest of knowing <br />To understand pain <br />To escape it <br />Recurring life as samsara <br />Dust he saw every where <br />His sleeping wife and son <br />Abandoned <br /> <br />He might have attained the highest plains <br />Of nothingness <br /> <br />But he might have missed <br />The heat of life <br />To be a human <br />To laugh <br />Smile <br />And weep sometimes <br /> <br />He might have been <br />Telling someone <br />And knowing <br />That why he had been doing all this <br /> <br />He might have longed for love <br />In his immeasurables <br />But he had gone <br />Too Long Forth <br /> <br />July 23,2010<br /><br />Sadiqullah Khan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/too-long-forth/
