There was a light that lit the world,
Its golden radiance reaches across the tides of time,
Here in the darkness it throbs with hope,
Open it,
Here, let your eyes feast upon the pages,
Read!
Recite!
Rejoice!
This is the miracle
of love
of life
of ecstasy,
What you hold is the seal
of all that has gone before,
It is our salvation as we struggle through these parched deserts,
It is the torch that keeps us warm in the coldest winter of the soul,
Come my darling,
I know you
I embrace you
I would wait for all eternity for you,
This was the message when time was first born
and it still tilts and beats to the tune of the human heart,
This music older than the song of memory
will one day wipe away the tears of the sacrificed orphans,
I have wept silently in these long forgotten caves
and of you have I thought each and every day,
I will stay here and once more reach out
to the starlit light,
It was always the light
and now I see it coming,
My day here is done
I now go to places where darkness has no home,
I seek refuge in the lands of light,
In that pearly place I will wait,
"When will you come?"
My heart
my soul
my love,
"Why do you always look away?"



©Rangzeb Hussain