Like Joseph Poem by Sadiqullah Khan

Like Joseph in the company
When you call your friends
Of the beauty of your love
Nay not they understand
What is beauty in human
More than angels they found
From the heart like rose
Sprouting with perfumes
Blinded were they
When the knives did cut
Their fingers out of wonder
Revealed to them was the nature
An angel though is without desire
With desires beauty in human
When the devil subdued
The eloquence of the youth
With modesty and love pure
The proud ladies when took leave
Heart broken were they for the beauty divine
Pity they felt for the lover of the youth
Did they understand what was inside
In soulful eyes and long days of separation
Call them not for they shall steal
The love of your heart
Alas they understand not
For once fallen in love
Love knoweth no bounds
15/10/2008