The Dryness and the Rain

First came a strong wind,
rippin' off rooftops like bottlecaps
and bending lamp posts down to the ground.

then came a thunder shattering my windows
but you were not that strong wind or that might sound

You left the bar in shambles,
the rabbit hutch in ruins,
the split-rail fence splintered and the curtains torn.

all the cows out from the pastures trampling the pumpkins
and the horses from their stable ambling in the corn

Isa ruhu-lah 'alaihis-salat was-salaam
Isa ruhu-lah 'alaihis-salat was-salaam

And I've flown unnoticed just behind you like an insect
And I've watched you like a falcon from a distance as you passed.

then swooped down to be nearer, to the traces of the footsteps
to pick the fallen grain from the pressed-down dirt and crooked grass.

And I'm gonna take that grain and I'm gonna crush it all together
into the flour of a bread as small and simple and sincere.

As when the dryness and the rain finally drink from one another
The gentle cup of mutually surrendered tears, C'MON!

A fish swims through the sea
While the sea is in a certain sense,
Contained within the fish!
Oh, what am I to think
Of what the writing of a thousand lifetimes
Could not explain
If all the forest trees were pens
And all the oceans, ink?

Isa ruhu-lah 'alaihis-salat was-salaam
Isa ruhu-lah 'alaihis-salat was-salaam

Nastagh-firuka ya Hokan
Ya Dhal-Jalah wal-Ikram
Isa ruhu-lah 'alaihis-salat was-salam
Ya Halim, ya Qahhar
Ya Muntaqim, ya Ghaffar!
Ia Ilaha ilallahu, Allahu Akbar!