For It Is He That Beckons

(ca. 1986/7)

ALLAH is a Communication –

from AH to AH . . .

When a child looks upon me – I disappear,
it is He that beckons:

AH L' AH L' AH L' AH L' AH

Show me the least gesture of beauty or of subtlety:
Yussuf beholds himself through my eyes . . .

AH L' AH L' AH L' AH L' AH

For it is He that beckons in the personal display
of nobility or of grace –
I hear His ways and would that I were his slave:

AH L' AH L' AH L' AH L' AH

And should I find and should I see the Majesty of His Person
reflected in my very Self –
Surely the way of perfect humility is the very threshold
of effacement in the sovereign and dynamic.

AH L' AH L' AH L' AH L' AH