Sorcery Poem by Sadiqullah Khan

The great canyons on earth
The no man’s land on Mars
The universe traversed to and fro
The Siberian chills or waters of Good Hope
From horn of Africa to the deserts
Never seen or felt

The ice caps on the edges
The core of the earth to the stratosphere
The vastness of the universe
To the world of aliens
With flying unseen objects
Of the history and the spirits of the yore
In wedding grand as if ordained by God

The great story of love
Of the Majnun and Laila
Drawn into the squabble to prove
The love that is not love unto it
Pretending thirst when not thirsty

Like in the court of Pharaoh
The magician played
The courtiers named many
With their salutations and in support
In line and in the third row
The craft from the witches
Or the objects known
Perfected like the nations lost
Like Pompi of the past

On the chess board in black magic
In no man’s land the God is identified
As yourself or the angel
With banners high and mask of the youth
For the score board to display
The show is planned

Like Moses in the garment
With chest torn and weaved
By hands that feed the infants
The wool from the neck of the first season
Of the lamb
And cotton picked by the fingers
With love who sing in the delta
When he threw his stalk
The serpents of the magician
Move with the curves for the sorcery goes
To the Black Hole with its magic

The passion from the Peter Gabriel’s
With vocals from the east
The Last Temptations or the touch of the Nile
In a nanosecond the passion was one with the self
The water still flowing and bolt still hanging

When in the depth of night
For a kiss in my tavern
Wine old and many mysteries of love
From self to self
My passion flows

Unending is this state of bliss
The world is me for the universe is small
Only when you hold my goblet

A mole on the cheek of my love
Your Mars and Earths and Canyons Great

(“Passion” was the music composed by Peter Gabriel for the movie “The Last Temptation Of Christ” with vocals by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan from Pakistan)
21/10/2008