Poem: Locked Down – Novid Shaid
Novid Shaid, a well respected poet from the UK, writes a poem to lift our spirits during this time of isolation and lock down.
LOCKED DOWN
One night as I sat
Shackled up by Facebook
The jitters from the Twitter
Filled my body and my face shook
The trap of the Whatsapp
Enwrapped my intentions
But a voice from beyond
Just arrested my attention
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Sallahu ala Muhammad! Sallahu alayhi was sallam!
—-
Locked down to the ground
Of the multiplicity
My heart was aground
A beleaguered city
Spellbound in the haze
Of my lusts’ euphoria
But the voice cleared away
The phantasmagoria
—
Sallahu ala Muhammad! Sallahu alayhi was sallam!
—
I arose with a heave
Enclosed by acedia
My head leaking facts
From the Wikipedia
My eyes bleeding tracks
From the social media
But the voice kindled me
I rejoiced with a fever
—
Sallahu ala Muhammad! Sallau alayhi wa sallam!
—
I strained to my door
To the ways of the speaker
My phone tingling
Making me feel weaker
My soul signalling
To awake like a seeker
The voice echoing
And the light shone brighter
—
Sallahu ala Muhammad! Sallahu alayhi wa sallam!
—
I followed the voice
In my mind’s metropolis
Approached by these hawkers
And hucksters and sophists
They plied me with gadgets
And pure luxuria
But the voice stirred me
Like the Queens of Nubia
—
Sallahu ala Muhammad! Sallahu alayhi was sallam!
—
Then beyond the display
Of my urban madness
A pistachio tree
I encountered with gladness
The limbs shivering
With the breezes of Oneness
The leaves whispering
Shimmering with abundance
—
Sallahu ala Muhammad! Sallahu Alayhi Wa Sallam!
—
The roots of the tree
Spoke to me in a dialect
The fruits of the tree
Was a map to redirect
“To find the essence
When you’re feeling remoteness
Recite this sentence
Tune in to the gnosis.”
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Sallahu ala Muhammad! Sallahu Alayhi Was Sallam!
—
Novid Shahid
