Ya Muqaddim
Ya Batin
Ya Mawjud
Ya Zahir
step by step
always Now and ever Been
knocking from the inside
for the One loving Being
wave upon wave
form to crest to be unseen
Manifesting dissolution
In Loves flowing unity
Beyond my understanding
When I think on the thoughts around Godliness
Confusion can block me I confess
Unseeing belief is good for me I guess
But I don’t feel fine when my life’s a mess
God beyond my understanding
Personal, abstract or no name at all
Be my sweet DNA, ground my being
Love me completely, enlighten my way
Discretely please guide me so that I may
Fall, fall into Your opening arms
Fall, fall right down upon these knees
Call, call out now for Your loving balm
Restore me, renew me so I receive
You are the Name above all names
You are the word beyond my lone voice
You hear what I need before I say
You chose to bequeath me my own choice
For You are the luminous great I AM
You shine Your light upon everything
Even when we choose to walk alone
You patiently wait to guide us back home
Yes you are patiently waiting to guide us home.
Atmospheric perfumes of old
Hazrat Inayat Khan Vol VI p. 205
‘for the person who as attained to the mystery of Sadhana (detachment from worldly things) there is nothing in this world which cannot be attained, all is within his reach, his power, his grasp’
grasping beyond all that is spoken
transforming insides in complete
focussing tight rightly pray to be opened
by boundaries way out of reach.
find nothing and all in acorns so small
where both Beauty and horror is riven
thorns stemming foes as rosebud unfurls
perfumaries for the forgiven.
atmospheres calling unseen and untold
pure waters hydrating dryness of form
seedlings compost in saplings of old
returning to unfurl in soft streams of dawn.
Turning new leaves to:
re route this wait
enlighten fear through
unloosening gates
empty and clearing
without and within
actively resting
and as we refresh and uncling.
Beneath this dry crust
Beneath this dry crust
grit, dust and pain
soft whispering tears
gently refresh Your name
to re-soothe this fright
caress stress and this strife
impress hands side by side so
to fill within Light.
chorus
cheek by cheek, may we discover
Jugular breathing of Lover to lover
Beloved release us, incense us with sweetness
immerse us in perfumes of True Love’s completeness.
Light pouring out
Illuming this living
Re-shining doubt
so to see without seeing
exposing confusion
we free flow these Oceans
to joyfully drown within
earthly illusions.
city slowness 