The light Upon light


Secret is the song that turned the birds on
To search for Simorgh* in Far East
and far beyond

Secret is the image Farhad glimpsed
That brought hem the dance, the rapture
That he engraved Shirins name on the Rock
And all around

The quest is the secret
The name is the way
The searching is the path
The dead way is
to stay

Not the ear knows the tongue of the secret
Nor the tongue knows the sounds of the secret

The Hymn was meant to hear by bleeding hearts,
Not the curious minds
The Zikr** is the song of spirit,
Not the mortal kinds

The uniqueness of the lover:
he always hear her sounds

The only path to light is becoming light,
And then
to surrender
to Light Upon Light


Shervin
July 2007

*The Persian Phoenix
** Sufi Mantra