The Life Of A Faqir Poem by Mohammad Younus

The life of a faqir...
...is his desire to know the hidden truths;
He hammers into the walled city of knowledge...
...to read from the pages of the book of knowledge...
...in silence and in pure serenity;
So he calms down his turbulent mind...
Because mind is like the furious sea...
...where angry waves are tossing...
...against each other and chasing relentlessly;
He stops the tides of this violent sea...
...from trying to get upto the moon foolishly,
Like wolves howling, growling notoriously;
A troublesome exercise!
That always ends up in shameful defeat;
A faqir makes his life beautiful...
...under the ease of spiritual calmness;
I wish I could see...
...how a faqir reads the wordless book of knowledge,
I wish I could see what he reads from...
...the colourless vast oceans, expansive sheet of earth, ...
...starry sky, shiny mornings and dark evenings;
And every other thing in the universe.

Mykoul