The kiss that had once on the cheek
In youthful joy as the first of the gift
Of bridal delight when life was to show
Echoes of love in the reflections
The mountains and springs of beauty
The music I had learned emanating
From those chords and the sound of cradle
The beats in nature from my very past
It still puts me in rapture when a note
Similar in character and pitch divine
Of the many memories written
On those hands were the passions of love
Like Marry to Jesus or my creator
Has the creator been created it is asked
For the glory of the woman who on earth
In majesty the creator herself
Her eyes were like a shining jewel
The way she would sing me rhymes
Prince of her imagination and fantasy
I slept in the velvet of her lap
From under the holy book from evil
I am a part of thee in thy bosom
Nourished on thy blood and thy milk
Nourished on thy love and compassion
Nourished on thy prayers and thy hands
Nourished on thy door on the last kiss
Nourished on thy presence thy discipline
Nourished that in heaven we would be
Nourished for me she said the prettiest
Nourished on the love my eyes sought
Nourished on life in bounties I had
I shall also nourish from the spirit
The soul that thou shalt enlighten
All the times like thy soul itself
(Dedicated to my mother, on my visit to her in hospital)
27/3/2009
Sadiqullah Khan
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-am-a-part-of-thee/
