Fire With Fire Poem by Sadiqullah Khan

The candle for the fire
Lit into ashes the flicker
Killed by time yet the bloom
Youth the darkness is peripheral
With the sweetness of the mind
Intellect had set some plans
More for the fortune to hide
O heart didst thou to the beloved
Asketh reasons against reason
That thou didst not believe
What love hast to the signs
Let alone thou seest the love
Art not thou but telling the maze
Thou hast by the wave of a hand
From the seventh sky brought down
In a cup of wine all wisdom present
Of future and past thy steps treads
The meaning of love hast someone
Thou shalt fall in the mystery again
Thou hast not learned love as yet
Whence revealeth the beloved
Thou shalt have fits of madness
Thou hadst appearance of form intact
Beloved asketh still alive not dead
In avoidance many wise notions
A spark is needed for the ashes
Fire with fire that burneth the self
Once more on the east wind towards
From where comes the aroma subtle
13/5/2009