The Dryness And The Rain

First came a strong wind
Rippin' off rooftops like bottlecaps 
And bending lamp posts down to the ground
Then came a thunder
Shattering my window 
But you were not that strong wind 
Or that mighty sound 
That left the bar in shambles
The rabbit hutch in ruins
The split-rail fence splintered 
And the curtains torn
All the cows out from the pastures
Trampling on the pumpkins 
And the horses from their stables 
Ambling in the corn

Isa ruhu-lah 'alaihis-salat was-salam

I've flown unnoticed just behind you like an insect 
And I've watched you like a falcon 
From a distance as you passed
You swoop down to be nearer 
To the traces of your footsteps
To pick the fallen grain from the dirt 
Beneath the crooked grass
And I'm going to take that grain
I'm going to crush it all together 
Into the flour of a bread 
As small and simple and sincere 
As when the dryness and the rain 
Finally drink from one another
The gentle cup of mutual surrendered tears

Come on!

fish swims through the sea 
While the sea is, in a certain sense
Contained within the fish! 
Oh, what am I to think 
Of what the writing 
Of a thousand lifetimes could not explain 
If all the forest trees were pens 
And all the oceans, ink?

Isa ruhu-lah 'alaihis-salat was-salam

Nastagh-firuka ya Hakam
Ya Dhal-Jalali wal-Ikram
Isa ruhu-lah 'alalihis-salat was-salam
Ya Halim, ya Qahhar
Ya Muntaqim, ya Ghaffar!
La llaha ilallahu, Allahu Akbar!