Rebirth

12/6/07

Banish words, burn books,
Shut down the electric currents keeping us all at bay

Let’s go out by the multitude
Or solitary
Beyond confines

to remember the smell of earth again
texture of the universe
against  feel of skin
beauty that wrings herself
tirelessly
regardless of the blind

Banish all words
fragments of dead knowledge
taking us away
so far away
from reality

deadening instincts
rendering the need
to experience, meaningless

wisdom has been put on mute

senses become less
common
atrophying

while distractions and disorders rules the day

Banish them all I say
let’s become explorers
adventurers
remember and celebrate 

let’s birth this universe anew

Let’s observe the world
like we’ve never seen before
through the eyes of a
child

a new born soul

lest we stifle all that is joyous
genuine
and gorgeous 
into blind crusts of jaded bitterness

Come on, let’s go,
the last frontier of innocence
is in our hands, we can’t afford
any more blood

Banish all barriers
that keep us in prisons
without bars

let’s go out
let’s go out by
the multitude

let’s go out solitary

to simply gaze at the stars….

(the irony of using this medium/words to express these reflections does not escape me. Indulge me, please.)

Posted by Maliha Filed in Motherhood, Poetry, Prose, of the heart

6 Responses to “Rebirth”

  1. safia Says:
    12/7/07 at 7:52 am

    asaalmaulikum,
    mashAllah,wonderful words.
    i completly agree!but,i just have one question-where is that we should go?-)

  2. Maliha Says:
    12/8/07 at 8:11 am

    Waalykum Salam Safia,
    Your comment prevents me from deleting this incredibly horrible poem. I will write more reflections on this when I create the space to write…Inshaallah.

  3. irving Says:
    12/8/07 at 7:31 pm

    Wonderful, dear Sister :) First the TV goes, now books and words that lead to misunderstanding, bitterness and lies. Ah, for the innocence of a child once again, and a mother to protect him from the world.

    How is Yusuf, by the way? :)

    Ya Haqq!

  4. izaliah Says:
    12/8/07 at 7:49 pm

    Assalamualaikum.
    Please do not delete any of your writings - ‘horrible’ or otherwise. Do allow us to share your journey. For my part, I have yet to find any of your posts ‘horrible’.

  5. Maliha Says:
    12/9/07 at 7:56 am

    Salamaat,
    Irving: not all books of course (the addict speaks!) but you touched the core of what I was trying to say…Observing how Sufyan interacts with the world, so un-burdened by theories and words; needing to create the space for him to experience and knowing that childhood ends much too soon…(like all transient good things… ;)

    Izaliah: Thank you for deblurking and your kind words…every time I write, I feel like I am approximating and the end result is never quite what i was trying to say. Kheir…

  6. izaliah Says:
    12/10/07 at 4:00 am

    I know what you mean. Words are often inadequate to express thoughts and feelings, even in one’s mother tongue (mine is Malay). But I don’t want to be spending a lot of time fine tuning my writings, so I just get it off my chest and move on…..

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