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.