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Submission by: Muslim Writers Society and Foundation <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Topic: Tick Tock [poem] ************ Text: This poem has been presented by the Muslim Writers Society and Foundation. To read more articles and poems, and to learn more about the society, point your browsers to http://www.oneummah.net/qalam/ ----------- Tick Tock By Ramaq A thousand years gone, but no Osman Beg reborn, no more dawns, only darkness' empty songs. Heart! take heart! absorb history's bruising, bleed not under oppressions swords, cry not at Jerusalem's doors. Self! look not at thine reflection in the mirrors of the past, You might find a future of troubling sadness, of no gladness. Diligence, patience, rememberance and the childhood love are all gone, Oh what loveless schemes, what painful mysteries brought this on? Lost the youth that flowered too soon, lost the love that was found too fast, all the overpowering, all the prayers, in the end there remained no breath. Where's the thread that bites into my neck? Spun with the skill of shaytan, Where's the circle in which my gaze is trapped? Drawn with the drops of my blood. How splendidly the mountains bowed, the sun sparkled like a gleeful lark. Joy, golden bright, is dim in my eyes, replaced with the smog of lost persian bazars. the clouds of mourning have rained and fled, I've stepped upon that heavenly bed, and flown with angels upon the pathways of stars. I am tortured by the flames of lost ages, sitting in this sage-less stage, like a bird in a cage, seething with distress, and languishing without breath, I longed to be kissed by the dance of dervishes long dead. But the image of ressurrection flutters in my mind's eye, Though I find no comfort in Joy or that colored clay, I am, yet somehow, burning with love anew, Marble statues melt in the fire of this ardor, replaced with the calligraphy of these word-shards. The clock of today held upon the back of Atlas, is bound to stop--ticking only in the tales of desert bards. ________________________________________ OneUmmah Network e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.OneUmmah.Net Free E-mail Service: http://mail.1ummah.net Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] e-mail entire list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The views expressed on One Ummah Information do not necessarily coincide with the views of OneUmmah Network, with the Islamic Unification Movement, or its supporters. All the works presented by this service are properties of their authors unless otherwise stated. ________________________________________