Posted by: Sohail Ahmed Shaikh on: May 9, 2009
I am forever walking upon these shores,
Betwixt the sand and the foam,
The high tide will erase my foot-prints,
And the wind will blow away the foam.
But the sea and the shore will remain
Forever.
Once I filled my hand with mist.
Then I opened it and lo, the mist was a worm.
And I closed and opened my hand again, [...]
Posted by: Sohail Ahmed Shaikh on: February 21, 2009
When the night of the twelfth aeon fell,
And silence, the high tide of night, swallowed the hills,
The three earth-born gods, the Master Titans of life,
Appeared upon the mountains.
Rivers ran about their feet;
The mist floated across their breasts,
And their heads rose in majesty above the world.
Then they spoke, and like distant thunder
Their voices rolled over the [...]
Posted by: Sohail Ahmed Shaikh on: February 7, 2009
Almustafa, the chosen and the beloved, who was a noon unto his own day, returned to the isle of his birth in the month of Tichreen, which is the month of remembrance.
And as his ship approached the harbour, he stood upon its prow, and his mariners were about him. And there was a homecoming in [...]
Posted by: Sohail Ahmed Shaikh on: February 7, 2009
I believe in you, and I believe in your destiny.
I believe that you are contributors to this new civilization.
I believe that you have inherited from your forefathers an ancient dream, a song, a prophecy, which you can proudly lay as a gift of gratitude upon the lap of America.
I believe you can say [...]
Posted by: Sohail Ahmed Shaikh on: February 4, 2009
The people looked upon Father Samaan as their guide in the field of spiritual and theological matters, for he was an authority and a source of deep information on venial and mortal sins, well versed in the secrets of paradise, hell, and purgatory.
Father Samaan’s mission in North Lebanon was to travel from [...]
Posted by: Sohail Ahmed Shaikh on: January 19, 2009
The Forerunner
You are your own forerunner, and the towers you have builded are but the foundation of your giant-self. And that self too shall be a foundation.
And I too am my own forerunner, for the long shadow stretching before me at sunrise shall gather under my feet at the noon hour. Yet another sunrise shall [...]
Posted by: Sohail Ahmed Shaikh on: January 19, 2009
Give me the Nay and sing the secret song of eternity.
The laments of the Nay will linger beyond the decline of existence.
Have you, like me, chosen the forest dwelling rather than the castle?
Have you followed the stream and climbed the rocks?
Have you anointed your body with fragrance distilled in light?
Have you been drunk with dawn [...]