ReflectOnThis: Poems

FAR AWAY

Excuse me sister

Can I whisper

A little truth in your ear?

It’s no mystery

Through history

All the signs are clear

Times are so whack

Dogs on Prozac

Everyone feels under

False depression

Learn a lesson

The devil’s got your number

The war’s adjacent

But you’re complacent

It’s just another channel

So just turn the station

And keep erasin’

Pain you can’t dismantle

Sometimes I wanna fly,

Far away!

And then I pray

Oh let me stay!

Another day (2x)

Excuse me Mister

Can I whisper

A little truth in your ear?

It’s no mystery

Through history

All the signs are clear

More energy drinks

To speed the jinx

Of a life you can’t control

Going to and from

While you feel so numb

But you think you’re on a roll

A brand new diet

You got to try it

Cuz everyone’s so thin

Put down that mag

And grab a rag

And wipe this mess you’re in!

Sometimes I wanna fly,

Far away!

And then I pray

Oh let me stay!

Another day (2x)

Excuse me people

There’s no sequel

We’ve only got one chance

To get it right

And win this fight

So check your circumstance!

You got internet

And a cell phone pet

But we’re all disconnected

You hear the preachers

And sacred teachers

But no one gets affected

Don’t let terrorism

Be the schism

For all humanity

Bring the proofs

When you report the “truth”

And restore the sanity

Sometimes I wanna fly,

Far away!

And then I pray

Oh let me stay!

Another day (2x)

Bismillah.
As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullah . . .

For those that inquired about the two poems read by your brother at RIS6 this year, here they are:

MUSLIM SALAD
By: Aaron Haroon Sellars © 2007

Before Islam I was lost
And after Islam I was lost
Between this and that group
Was I tossed

A bookstore Shaykh
Not even worth a dollar
With do-it-yourself Islam
Who needs a scholar?

Tossed so much
Might as well been a salad
I was quoting Hadeeth
But my wudu was invalid

If I can’t purify my outer
Then what about my inner?
Piles of books
But still a big sinner

What I know, doesn’t show
And now I know better
That’s what happens without the spirit
And only the letter

So attach myself I must
To scholars with unbroken chains
For this is the means
By which pure knowledge remains

LIKE A BUTTERFLY
By: Aaron Haroon Sellars © 2007

The capital of life
Is in every breathe
So take advantage
Before none is left
Don’t judge the truth
By what people do
First find the truth
And do what’s right for you
Lift your soul up high
From the fakeness on the ground
Search deep inside
And the Real will be found

Like a Butterfly
I want to Change!
Like a Butterfly
Fly out of Range!

You can’t see the sun
If you look it in the eye
You can’t live your life
If you never try
If you want to walk on water
You must take a step
But you won’t move a foot
With a faith that is inept
So if you want to move the mountains
You need a power not your own
You can move the mountains
When certainty is shown
Don’t you know that the graveyard
Is the richest place on earth?
Because of all the hopes and dreams
That lay beneath the dirt

Like a Butterfly
I want to Change!
Like a Butterfly
Fly out of Range!

So bless me like Muhammad!
Help me like Moses!
Save me like Jesus!
And all the Saints that know this!