My Smiling Face Poem by Mohammad Younus

My Smiling Face


I hear the beez buzz
In the stillness of night
The stillness like the mystic silence
My soul appalled by ghastly fright
Stops to look around
The music swells and grows sweeter
Absorbs me in its melodic tone

I see myself at the gate of the paradise
Notice the beauteous Houries
Drawn from Eden
Singing and swinging in my eyes
To lure me back to the garden
of light
Where I lived before with Eve
It is a delirious reception from heaven
The soul rarely gets such a welcome

Heavenly music echoes around
Ringing me back to my old memory
That remindes me of my glorious past
I think I am so mean
Unworthy of such a stupendous
welcome

Is it the same garden? I wonder!
Where Adam and Eve lived
Before their disgraceful exodus
Where they looked at each other
Where their mouths watered with passion
To taste the grain of wheat
My goodness!
I am not Eve or Adam
I won't taste this food again
lest I should fall again

0', do not ask what is it?
Let you come in
This is your eternal home
Do not stay away like a spoiled child
It is time for you to turn back
Enter the garden of eternity
Step into life immortal
Expand out into existence
After you were dead in wilderness

I go in joyously
it amazes me to see
The great monuments of love:
The legendary mountain of Farhād,
The Najad forest of mad
Majnūn,
The spring of the Nāg Prince

I recall their sufferings
And sacrifices one by one
The perilous paths they walked on
The great dangers they faced
The agony and anguish they went through
Yet they were resolute and resilient
For their passion to be
One with each other

They looked for each other crazily
on the mountain summits,
On the highland meadows,
And in the burning deserts
But they felt with certainty
They were made for each other
I too know You and I are one
The vedge between You and I
Equals just a flash of light

While looking for you at midnight
The lightening flashed in my room
Followed by a forceful thunder
Suddenly, I saw myself in my room
All alone, giving a brilliant smile

It filledme with pleasure immense
That, at last, I saw my true face
Each moment that followed
I see around my smiling face

Mykoul