Chapter 1-The Sinful Soul Of Reyhan Poem by Anees Rahman

It was a great family. They were bestowed with the rarest
of knowledge of both spiritual and the living material world
from their ancestors. The head of the family Sheik Habeeb
had their laws and customs followed according with their
sacred beliefs. The eldest of his four daughters was married
to Reyhan an intellectual scholar who worked with the state.
They had two male children a three year old and a new born.
It was the day to welcome the second son in law of Sheik
Habeeb. Reyhan had to attend a talk, so was a moment late.
The house didn’t wait and the dinner was served. When Reyhan
reached, his pride and ego hurt him as the dinner was served
without the eldest son in law. It so happened, he left the home
without his wife and children.
Those were the times of pride and anger; those were the times
of hatred and revenge. The father and the son in law tried their
own ways. Reyhan tried to keep the children with him but Sheik
Habeeb won’t allow. And he was divorced. He married yet
another woman and had children but all girls. Sheik Habeeb
sued him for not giving the expenses of the two boys. And after
months of debates the verdict was passed against Reyhan to
meet the expense of his sons, as he was getting salary from
the state. He decided not to give. But the state started to cut
off his salary. To take on Sheik Habeeb he resigned from his
work with the state so that Sheik Habeeb doesn’t take his money.
Thus the sons were raised without a father. And they were taught
with knowledge by the Sheik. They grew into youth. For college
education, his eldest son Raheem required his father’s signature
and he left to meet him whose image he couldn’t recollect.

Chapter 1-The Sinful soul of Reyhan

From the memories of sacred wrongs,
From the spiritually admired best,
Came the soul of heart’s dreadful songs
That smiled with ugly triumph of debt.

The phantom hunted Reyhan’s saints
Pointing his ashes among god’s saints
But the endless ego taught him the don’ts
That left him wandering without true bonds.

For Every moment he ever saw himself,
For every thought that burned his head,
He begged graceful forgiveness for his self
To bring the rest of his sleep to his bed.

Fate of those without a fatherly father!
For there were laws that make him a father
Of which he rejected all, even under force
The rules that compels to abide with those.

For all those said are to meet the meant;
So came the day as a beauty in shame
To meet his son the Sheik had sent
While afraid he was of anything like same.

But known to him till now as an unknown,
Even though he was the best of known,
There stood in front in the name of his son,
A flesh that grew to a body, a ton.

“Hail this helpless father, Hail the days ago
Hail the one who brought him here
Hail his prideful ego
Let the earth spin with turn
And make the dreadful old page,
There he shall go back and return
With his sons and wife to this age.”

And Reyhan spoke silently -
“O, you are him.”

©Anees Rahman