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Ishq Jab ** Khushboo Se Pur,
To Zarra Ban Jaaye Ayeenah-e-Noor.

Na Jaam Chahiye, Na Mai Ka Sabab,
Gul Hi Hai Raaz — Aur Nasha Hai Adab.

For love, when laced in scent so pure,
Turns even dust to light’s allure.

No wine, no glass, no tavern wall—
The rose alone can make one fall.

So let the lovers understand:
The wasp that kissed her thorned hand,
Did not return the way he came—
He left his name, and bore her flame.
The Philosophy of Love and Intoxication (Falsafah-e-Ishq-o-Nasha) 06/09/2025 © All Rights Reserved by Jamil Hussain
Where once we thought we owned the world and forever was our playground,
Tomorrow, The light of our two souls merging into one...

WE WERE WRONG!!!

You have gone, My heart has lost your echo
Death the thief,
That stole this Poets' words
Silence once again reigns in my world...
The heavens cry out for me,
For the loss of you left me mute...

Memories fade, As the stars lose their twinkle,
One by one they fade into the dark,
The dark that binds tear-stained eyes
Takes away all life colors.

Struck dumb and blind, I'm left to travel, on lifes' road alone
The worlds last cruel joke,
To leave me alone and loveless...

But Revenge will be sweet as I stumble
Too my last horizon,
God will be there....
To open my eyes, and I
Can once again stare into yours
and
Know that I am finally home,
My voice returned,
To tell you

Through all these years...
I Never once stopped Loving You!!!
Tears flow
Tricky tears they know
They know, they have it their way
They know how to trickle down
They flow

They flow ceaselessly,
Unsightly, unexplained,
at the slightest of pain
Discomfort their name

They lie hidden in the depths
In times of despair
To your rescue, unperturbed
They surface Unrushed

They can be trained
To Master the art of deceit
Shrouded in lies
A weapon, honed with might
Held in disguise
In their master’s eyes

They stand as  warriors
For emotions left unsaid
A paradoxical deluge
No ocean can hold
An unstoppable wave
Tears of joy

Tricky tears they know
They know, they have it their way
They know how to trickle down
They flow
𝐴𝑏𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑏𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑟– 𝑗𝑢𝑑𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑠𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝑏𝑙𝑢𝑟,
𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑒𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟– 𝑐𝑟𝑢𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑𝑒𝑟.
𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑏𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟– 𝑎 𝑓𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑤𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟, 𝑆𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑏𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑎𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟, 𝐷𝑒𝑎𝑡ℎ 𝑏𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑙𝑒𝑟,
𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑐𝑎𝑑𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑟– 𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑏𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑑𝑠𝑢𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑟.  

𝑁𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑒– 𝑠𝑜 𝑏𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑑𝑦,
𝑂𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑚𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑢𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑦, ℎ𝑎𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑑𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡𝑦.
𝑆𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑚𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑎– 𝑏𝑒𝑔𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑐𝑦, 𝐸𝑛𝑔𝑢𝑙𝑓𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑎𝑏𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑦, 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑏𝑛𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦.  

𝑆𝑡𝑒𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑓𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑃𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑟– 𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑒,
𝐹𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑎 𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑟, 𝑎 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑏𝑒ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑑𝑒𝑛 𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑟.
𝑇𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑡𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑝ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒, 𝑝𝑟𝑎𝑦𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑒,
𝐹𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑟, 𝑠𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑢𝑛𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑟.
the trouble with poetry
(and this poetry site) is its

facilitation

awoke in a strange bed, my own,
in a different city, with my old eyes
renewed with, by loving amazement
at the beauty of so many souls experimenting
with edged, loving, dangerous compo-notions,
that make me older than King David, who loved the
love of life and this world, for here I am, falling too
for the life & love potions
of words of my fellow humans across
vast oceans
and I stoke their and stroke their
heated words, pretending that
the cool warmth of my tablet
is both their gorgeous skin and
alluring verbal twists that arouse
my innermost, and break my already
broken heart, and heals it at the very
same time...
all too, so easily

this communication is at levels that
descend, transcend,
grips me with passion and consternation
at my own desires, my open body & mind
stirred, chilled, shaken, stirred and soothed
by the busting out contradictions of us, me,
so well hidden, so well revealed in the marvy
ability of so many to share their essences,
their own scents, just by words upon a page,
and here I pause...
to consider the duality of the word

f a c i l e
for poetry shared facilitates this burning,
  "     "              "            "             "     tumult,
and yet comes to me so facile, that I worry,
that the words themselves are facile, cheap
& easy, but then I am reassured by the very
real drops of my body's fluids upon my cheeks,
that confirm, that poetry is too so real, so living,
and I guess you know me by my real name,
my real face, and my realized words here,
and wonder if I need cease to wonder why
wonderful is...
a thing

my poetry is written by silent night, or early morn,
so very differing, and laugh out loud at myself,
for I am a differing man, at differing times,
of a potpourri of contagious contradictory
conceptions, that I traverse so easy, this facility
is my blessing, and poetry my well worn skill
at...facilitating this absurd admixture of
human~you-man~a man~amen.

and here I leave you...
for I have left
the sunroom too...

@
3:26 am
Thu Sep 4
someplace else
They are traitors, beasts clothed in a grin,
yet within lie corpses, drunk on blood and sin.
At the banquet of lies, their hunger remains,
bread of greed they devour, wine of deceit fills their veins.

A cross on their chest, but hollow and dead,
a symbol of holiness defiled instead.
Their tongues are blades of fire, yet the edge is fake,
draped in prayerful whispers, but every word’s a venomous snake.

Shadows in garments of radiant light,
masquerading prophets in the temple of night.
The power of God they trample, deny,
like ashes in the wind, scattered and left to die.

O people, do not bow to their vow,
their temples are caves where the serpent hides now.
They are rivers of death, flowing silent and grim,
drowning the thirsty in the abyss where no star can swim.

But the fire will come, unquenchable, wild,
tearing down masks, burning idols defiled.
Their holiness is ash, their glory is smoke,
their names will be written in the book of the cursed, in flames they’ll choke.

So heed the thunder this is the sign,
the veil of holiness torn by the divine.
And in the end, no refuge but night,
as false angels plummet to the pit, devoured by eternal fire and blight.
inspired by bible verse 2 Timothy 3: 4 5
I lose at love
I’m feeling stupid
I’m proud enough
I call on Cupid

When life is draught
There’s nothing to it
Lose your bluff
Summon new recruitments

There’s nothing wrong
Desire is human
The wing man’s fletch is drawn
Come on, trust the music

Love on an aerial path
Surrender is useless
Be my wrath,
Be my justice
If I had a wish,
what would I wish for?

I would wish for you
in the next life.

But then, would you ever wish
not to be with her?
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