O Allah, The Highest Companion

My heart, it craves the grave
happy to return to its resting place
For once it shall sleep a long night
only to wake up to see Your Light...

Takes hold of me relentlessly
this desire to be with You
Wait patiently for the day I'm dust
Free myself and fly as new

Your Power and Compassion vaster than these senses percieve
O Lord, take me away to a special place
I desire not Zaqqum
Grant me shade and peaceful songs
Hummed in a lasting tune.

Prays my heart relentlessly
for the day I see Your Face.
Race to You past all restraints
glorifying your sweet Name.

Seek shade beneath Your Throne
On a day when the sun is strong.
Grant me bliss and tranquility
as aches my heart to be
among Your accepted slaves.

Grant me love and the freedom of birds
in a garden where RasulAllah (saw) would be.
Take me away to that special place
I desire not Zaqqum.

Repeat Offender

When my disobedience intensified
You showed me the way home
Then I faltered again
and yet You guided me back
but I persisted on the path that welcomes wrath
and repentance became difficult on my tongue

"O man! what has made you careless
concerning your Lord, the Most Generous?" [Qur'an 82:6]

I stuck desperately to evanescent dust
My desire, greed and impatience
forces stronger than gravity itself
held me there, and they might still
until comes to me that which is certain
and then there would be no coming back

Unless You bestow Your mercy upon me
The steep is difficult for me to climb
for I realise I am indeed very weak
make it easy for me and grant me strength O Allah
Indeed You are able to do all things
[I would weep endlessly if only I had the tears]