The Hidden Beauty Poem by Akhtar Jawad

Long ago,
Millions or billions or trillions of years before,
Or even more,
Sweet heart you don’t remember,
But I have long memories,
I can see you singing,
I can see you dancing,
Oh Goddess of Divinity,
You never wore a dress,
And I was used to in seeing you naked,
I don’t know how,
I don’t know why,
One day your naked body,
Excited me,
And I started watching with a different pair of eyes,
And you were shocked so much,
Disappeared like camphor,
Since then I am looking for you,
I looked for you on the high mountains,
I looked for you in the deep oceans,
I looked for you in the plains of Ganges,
I looked for you in the hot shining sand,
I lost you,
I couldn’t see you again,
Now I am looking for my old lost vision,
Buried alive in the dirt of sins,
I am hopeful; let me clean my eyes,
Soon I shall look into my deep heart,
The only place I couldn’t search your beauty!



(Na tha kutch to Khuda tha kutch na hota to Khuda hota,
Duboya mujhko hone ne na hota main to keya hota
Mirza Ghalib)
(With thanks to http: //experiencehinduism.com/)
(According to an old Hindu legend, there was a time when all human beings were gods, but they abused their divinity. So, Brahma, the chief god, decided to take the divinity away from them and hide it somewhere they could never find it.
Brahma called a council of the gods to help him decide where to hide the divinity. “Let’s bury it deep in the earth, ” said the gods. But Brahma answered, “Humans will dig into the earth and find it.” Some gods suggested, “Let’s sink it in the deepest ocean.” But Brahma said, “No, Human will learn to dive into the ocean and will find it.” Then some gods suggested, “Let’s take it to the top of the highest mountain and hide it there.” Brahma replied, “Human will eventually climb every mountain and take up their divinity.” Then all the gods gave up and said, “We do not know where to hide it, because it seems that there is no place on earth or ocean that human beings will not eventually reach.”
Brahma thought for a long time said, “We will hide their divinity deep into the center of their own being, Humans will search for it here and there but they wont look for the divinity inside their true selves”
All the gods agreed that this was the perfect hiding place, and the deed was done. And since then, humans have been going up and down the earth, digging, diving, climbing, and exploring, searching for something, which already lies within them.)