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Abu Ali Ibn Sina (980 -1037)
A bout The Self
1. Descended into you
from on high .. above
she
a dove
exuding aloofness and
out of your reach
2. She
who is out in the open
Hidden from the sight of all that know
She
who is without veil
3. She came to you
unwilling
yet, perhaps,
will be loath to leave your body
She who exists
to morn
4. She alighted here but never
settled among us
yet when cam time to move on
she made her home in the shadows
of the bleakest of ruins
5. Methinks she has no recollection of lives she had at home lands
of times of dwellings past
that she never was convinced
she would leave
6. Until as she was shackled to the “d” of descent
and away from the “c” of her center in the vast beyond
7. She got weighed down by the “h” of heavy
she found herself among the eradicated
trails and sign posts
8. Weeping she remembered her days of the home turf
with tears cascading
and have yet to stop
9. She morns the traces that were
obliterated by repeated blowing
of winds from all four directions
10. She morns being caught in the thicket of the trap?
Her being restrained by the (rib) cage
from soaring to the most
spacious .. eternal .. Spring