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By
Sohail Mahmood
The Yearning for the day
Yearning for the divine experience
In mediation
In prayer
In the solitude of the late night
In total privacy
In state of prayer
When it will happen?
When will it happen?
The divine experience
Nothing equals it
It is beyond time and space
Longing for it
Yearning for it
Longing for it
Yearning for it
I am surely a spirit caged in a human body
Caged in a human body
How I yearn to be free
To be free
Once and for all
To fly out
To be free of my captivity
Once and for all
To fly out
Alas! My fate is to remain in the cage
Patience
Patience
One day I will fly out of the cage
One day it will happen
One day it will happen
Oh?
How m much I yearn for that day
For that memento of my freedom
For the moment of my freedom
Toe enter paradise
In contentment
In bliss
In happiness
For here is so much sorrow here
So much pain
So much cruelty
So much sorrow
So much pain
And, also so much injustice
So much injustice
One day it will end
For one day it will surely end
I will meet my lord
My creator
Enter into paradise
With dignity
And pride
Eternal bliss
No sorrow
No pain
No anxiety
No sorrow
No pain
No anxiety
Only justice and peace
Justice
Peace
Bliss
Eternal peace
Eternal bliss
One day it will happen
Surely, one day it will happen
Yearn for that day
Yearn for that day
I have to cross over into the valley of death to reach it
Cross over the valley of death
With dignity
And, pride
And faith
And faith in the divine mercy that will carry me
Faith in the divine mercy that will carry me
Not afraid to enter the valley of death
For beyond it, is another land
So fabulous
Unimaginable
Indescribable
They call it paradise
Surely, I will enter it one day
Have faith in divine mercy to make it happen
Not for a single moment will I falter
Not for a single moment will I falter
Just longing for it
Just longing for it
To release me from my captivity
To fly out of my cage
For I am a spirit caged in a human body
The body shall perish
The spirit will not
One day I will escape my captivity
Longing for that day
Longing for that day
Only you are witness
For I yearn for that day
Only you know it
The longing of my heart
The longing of my heart
The longing to get rid of my captivity
To enter paradise
Yearning for it
Yearning for it
The heart desires it
The heart desires it
Nothing else will suffice
Nothing in this world
Nothing in this world
The yearning for paradise
The yearning for the paradise
The Joy of Living
It is a joy to be alive
Smell the flowers
Feel the first drops of the on the outstretched hand
See the clouds in the blue sky
Notice the birds flying about
See the leaves and the branches of the trees
Feel the wind sway
See the running stream
Walk in the forest
Smell the pine trees
Smell the earth after the rain
It is a joy to be alive
See the sunrise
and the sunset
See the roar of the oceans
and the wet sand beneath my feet
All times I remember thee
Feel the rustle of the dried leaves as I walk on them
Feel the cool breeze
It is a joy to be alive
See the moonlight
See the awesome full moon
It is so magical
The soul at peace during the night
The quiet of the night
It is a joy to be alive
To think of thee
To love the
and be loved in return by thee
It is a joy to be alive
In the stillness of the night
When all are asleep
and I lay awake thinking of thee
and I yearn for thee
and I long for thee
I whisper to myself thine name
No one knows but me
It is a secret shared from the universe
No one knows
But I whisper the name to myself
When I am alone
Memories of time gone
Sweet memories I do cherish
It is a joy to be alive
It is a joy to be alive
The soul at peace within
The radiance shining on everything that I touch
Beauty inside reflected in joy of the heart
A contented heart
That yearns for none but thee
Only thee
Only thee
No one can fill but thee
A fulfilled heart
Content and at peace with world
No desires
No ambitions
Nothing but thine memory
That is enough to sustain me
It is a joy to be alive
It is a joy to be alive
I cherish thine memory
Enough to sustain me
For I will meet thee
I know
Hence, the joy of my heart
It is a joy to be alive
I live to meet thee
I live to meet the
That is the only ambition
The only thing I want
I see thee in everything
All feelings
All sights
All beauty in the universe is but thee
I love to meet the one day
The joy of living in thine memory
No one knows but thee
I and thee are one
In this journey of life
It is joy to be alive
I is a joy to be alive
Feeling the pain of life
Love others not yourself my dearest friend for every one loves himself
What is great in that?
Greatness is to love others
In giving love you gain a world my friend
You receive the pain of love rejected
You receive the pain of lost love
You receive the pain of dejection
But my friend the pain of loss is a must
the pain is part of life itself
what would be life without it
how can you feel happiness without feeling pain
How can you appreciate the joys of life without feeling the pain in it?
A rose but comes with the thorns my friend
The rose delights while the thorn pricking gives pain
They are but one experience my friend
So rejoice in the pain as well as the delight and bliss in your live
For they are two sides of the same coin
One without the other is simply not possible
What is the meaning of light without darkness?
Day without night
Evil without good
Life without death
So my friend live to embrace the pain also
Where there is no pain
Where there is no sorrow
Where there is just love
Just pure love
Where there is just compassion
Where there is just bliss
Where there is no anxiety
No worries
That place exists my dearest friend
We call it paradise
That is not life
We are there not yet
We cannot live here and there
We live in just one place
All that we desire is missing in this life
So my friend learn to accept that love can be rejected
A heart may be broken
There can be life without pain
Like there cannot be night without day
A rain without water
A sea without the dangerous waves
An autumn without the trees shedding their leaves
A winter without cold
So my dear friend life is nothing but a pair of opposites clinging each other in desperation
One without the other makes no sense my friend
So embrace the pain of rejection
The pain of dejection
The pain of lost love
And cry
Cry
Cry
This is life my friend
Just life
Understand this dearest friend
You cannot have one without the other
Such is life
Nothing else
but life itself
We embrace the totality of life
We cannot do otherwise
So my friend cries
You are lucky of u have a shoulder to cry on
Just cry even without one
Such is life
My dearest friend understand
Understand life itself
The pain of life
The pain of life itself
Love it
Live it my friend
Feel the pain
The pain
The pain
Sohail Mahmood
Sohail Mahmood is an independent global affairs analyst and the author of several books, monographs and research articles on Middle East and South Asian politics, governance and development issues. He has taught for about 30 years in various universities of Pakistan and US and has worked as a consultant for the World Bank, CIDA, SDC, IUCN and UNDP. Sohail is married and has two grown sons. He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States.