How name Him

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                How name Him

 

“The worldly shackles, off thou shake”

Someone in my ears, softly that spake,

I’d pondered and bemused, days long,

Why did I addle? The right and wrong.

 

He breathed the hint, and were gone,

I convulsed a night, eyes set at dawn,

An oddity ‘twas, he glanced and went,

Breathed a spark, into my heart’s rent

 

Evoked the fierce stir, in my heart deep,

Roused me awake, ah the dope asleep!

Pensive and verily aghast! Who he was?

I chased him! Why here? And the cause.

 

Terrains and heaths, the hills and vales,

But nowhere! Aye my shrieks and wails,

Scalding tears rolling, mine cheeks down,

He vanished, neither in woods nor town!

 

The vision as he were, I knew him never!

He had thronged my heart; his own ever,

Leaving the flash behind; akin to a dawn,

He ambushed me, ah my heart was gone.

 

 

 

An echo it were; or the lightning spell,

Aye where in my heart, he didst dwell,

Flamed me, thru mine heart and soul,

Ah raided me entire, then off he stole.

 

And then I were, O never myself again,

Nervy; yet I relished, this glowing pain!

Aye I were chased away, to a life anew,

Then my tears sparkled, drops of dew!

 

Like glittering pearls, over wilting flower,

And my life bathed, in the godly shower,

Inspirited and blushed, to a new bloom,

I eyed him attired, O in heavenly plume!

 

O the same spirit, who furtively vanished,

A hand reaching out, spark he brandished,

’Twert a dazzle; then my wits gone numb,

I were swapped with a flame; How come? 

 

Aye hear me! Off the shackles I had shook,

Deep in my heart, imbibed the prying look!

There I found soon, sat the wielding power,

In abiding scruples; ’neath the floral bower!

 

 

             By Dr. Riaz Ahmad, January 12, 2026

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