In a desert midnight no darker than dawn With cloudless heavens evident and stretching To the edges of Bedouins’ minds and ours Where owls govern with Your permission
You plunged a mighty fist deep Into the heart and gripped a molten rag And pulled it into a peak of crags In which the **** You wanted grew
With a rush of wind you shaped that Tear into a world-sized hollow to shelter A man and a starfilled future for any who Might accept what tugged at him that night
You once said Be! and time commenced But earlier you had chosen from first Until final a stream of Rusul and You placed In that cleft the last Rasul alone but never
And in the radiance of a challenging word Your spirit whose wings dripped pearls Asked the silent one who sailed in prayer To revolve the world on a different axis
Running feet across the earth carried him To the comfort of arms that felt a beating Chest bursting with ten million truths and her Assurances trounced the whisperer’s last ditch
Words of mercy flow around us through a gentle Heart in a stone cavity in the shade of a night Without shadows beneath a cloudless cover Which owls rule ... for a shrinking time