Sunday 28 November 2021

THE PRAYER RUG Shahbano Bilgrami

 


                                                       Threaded desire on a handloom,

Threaded fear, repentence,

Trepidation bound with the tears

Of generations

 

Fabric of enmeshed passions

Palliated by the rise and

Fall of earthly yet disinterested

Ship or solid  stone , daily rubbed

By blood and bone and flesh of

Weary human soul

 

Tear the skin stained with the

Purple of longing

 

Help the threaded body hanging

Distant, silhouetted from   the scaffold

Break the strangling fibers of the noose,

Let the spirit loose upon the heavens

                                                     In a moment of unravelling ecstasy.

THE PRAYER RUG Shahbano Bilgrami

                                                          Threaded desire on a handloom, Threaded fear, repentence, Trepidation bound wi...