The Cloaked Lovers – Arthur Skip Maselli
“Send my eyes to the gallows banish me from my city walls Muhammad was left by flesh and angels alike orphaned time again and again The silk road of love travels away from the heart and yet this…
“Send my eyes to the gallows banish me from my city walls Muhammad was left by flesh and angels alike orphaned time again and again The silk road of love travels away from the heart and yet this…
“Somewhere there are tears and bombs rupturing the beauty of sacred land Somewhere there are boats filled with people carrying nothing except the gift of breath Somewhere there are fathers using every inch of their bodies to pull…
“Enveloped in cityscape I submerged synesthesious in a Light somewhere in between olive oil and sweet honey. Light shone, unearthly from those moon faces – some perhaps more full than others, but all I knew was the light…
“Sometimes this city can look like a desert concrete dunes that stretch endless further than the London eye can see, parched travellers riding the nine to five like camels – fatigued, legs beginning to falter – buckling under…
“Like everyone else I know your life was never perfect You had your Share of traumas and pain Oppression was deeply planted Well before eyes could open But you still Chose to smile Chose to laugh Whenever the…
“for just this moment forget his hurt forget yourself be still for just this moment rest your heart erase your story lean back into yourself breathe then fall fall all the way back into the arms of the…
“I thought sorry would be enough to end wars, to dry tears, reincarnate the dead Lazarus is with us I thought it would unwidow the widow, unorphan the orphan I thought it would unite nations and tribes Your…
“Young men scratching the old records of memory, the old stories of antiquity Give them a new spin, telling a different story, yet always the same enemy Dark and cruel, there outside, lurking in the shadows of false…
“The long sleep has been annihilated as the thrumming of the awakened heart soars with the spirit ever upward to The Beloved on a heavenly journey of blessings with every niyyah, every prayer, every vision of beauty” from…