My Urge To Return Poem by Mohammad Younus

Eh me, the day I left the garden of Eden...
...was full of sorrow and disappointment;
But the tree beneath which I had sit with Eve...
...before we were sent down to earth...
...was rich with fragrant leaves and flowers;
And from its fragrant scent...
...I got a tiny Spray of scent on my heart's petals;
It is that scent which is generating love in my heart;
As such it keeps on reviving in my heart...
...the memory of that garden;
That is why I have got the intense urge...
...to go back there, and stay there for eternity;
I, know the endless distance to that garden;
How is it possible for me to go back there?
But the gentle fragrance on the wafts...
...coming from that garden revive in my heart...
...the sweetest thoughts of that garden of eternity;
So I sit on my knees in meditation in deep night -
Until morning sun touches the hilltops;
Moonlight incandescent on my eyes!
Musical winds sweeping over my body!

I see birds that are wild sleep in their nests...
...now waking, and setting out in swarms;
And I watch them flying up in skies...
...after chanting in chorus their morning hymns;
I stretch out my legs, and scratching my head...
...I start thinking about flying like birds...
...to my eternal garden in the heaven;
Eh, I have got no flying-wings on my body!
Days and months slipped away in the scramble...
...for flying back to the garden of eternity;
An old red-eyed man appeared and taught me to fly...
...with the wings of my soul beyond the horizon
It all started with the melodious sound of the Hu
A long unending Hu - it joined me to my essence;
And gave contentment, peace, and tranquility to me;
I find I have not to go anywhere - He is here!
Wherever I turn to, I find him there!

MyKoul