Back
Murtaza Humayun Saeed
I am back
Back from the world of thoughts alone
From the world of picking from multiple perceptions
Back from the prison of mind
From the world of reducing self
And mental mechanisms
I am back
I am whole again
Afresh and aware now
Haunted by vulnerability no more
Nor scornful because of my lack of past experience
For the world awaits me
And lessons yearn to be a part of me
Where real issues will be addressed
I am back again
From the empty well and its darkness
I have found all the wisdom I need
Is found in the core of me, though not from me,
There I am healed and washed
And found again
Find this poem in A Kaleidoscope of Stories – Muslim Voices in Contemporary Poetry.