Sufi Poetry

Spectacular Existence
you’ve hidden yourself
behind walls
too long
and dug your grave
before it’s time to die
stop
doing whatever
it is
you’re doing
in this prison
go up
to the tallest tower
in the city
or leave the city,
climb the top of the hill
and look
look
at the never ending vastness
that stretches
in every direction
around you
Someone
went through all the trouble
to create this
this!
which cannot be fathomed
or described
this!
which makes you speechless
with its scale
and splendor
and intricacy
Someone
went through all the trouble
to make you
and give you life
how incredible
how utterly incredible
that you are here
that you can breath
and hear
and walk
and touch
and see
feel
the utter astonishment
of being alive
that swells and rises
a great tidal wave
of gratitude
and prayer
and song
bursting from
inside your chest
how beautiful
and ravishing
and utterly astounding
is this life
pulsing, singing
and pushing inside
and all around you
why spend
even a single
precious moment
of this miracle
in anything
but amazement?
every single concern
and accusation
you could possibly have
every single one
melts
in the face
of the great spectacle
of Existence
if you would only see