With each beat of insanity… in my mind
My love and my calamity… is defined
Crazy in my figure… Aabis the warrior… in my mind
* * *
I am Aabis and my mind’s plagued by a nightmare
And all my veins these nightmares tend to ensnare
So that of my insanity you’re aware
To you these dreams that plague me O’ army I’ll share
It begins with children who pangs of thirst declare
And it ends when my eyes into your dead eyes glare
All I hear in the nightmare is… them crying
And all that’ll satisfy this… you dying
From life I’m your saviour… Aabis the warrior… in my mind
* * *
I am plagued with the world in my eyes set in flames
All I see is my sword and a list of dead names
The lion within me my mind daily it tames
But when Hussain cries my idleness it brings shames
So now army that wants him dead, begins my games
I don’t see men; all I see are breakable frames
You who wishes death on Hussain… meet my sword
For years its blade I have restrained… now you’ve called
Meet my howl with terror… Aabis the warrior… in my mind
* * *
Abbas is the pinnacle of courage, honour
Ali Akbar the picture of his grandfather
And Qasim the child who gives his future
Abdullah the baby, the innocent martyr
But I am Aabis O’ army, like no other
I have lost my mind in the love of my Master
O’ army I can see my mind… run away
And I run to this sanity find… in your way
Your deaths bring my honour… Aabis the warrior… in my mind
* * *
I see fear in the eyes of Hussain’s daughters thread
A boiling cup of madness this sight leaves my head
You can run to China, or run to the moon’s stead
Not in darkest shadows shall you escape my dread
Do not gaze back to your homes, nor the road ahead
Into the sealed valley of my rage you’ve tread
Crazed men search for their sanity… with no sight
Yet I know where mine lies clearly… with your plight
Comes for you O’ soldier… Aabis the warrior
In my mind
* * *
Why do you run away O’ army so frightened?
I throw my clothes on the dust, here against thousands
Have my screams of delusion your ears deafened?
Know my blood by my hysteria is thickened
I swear to dig your graves O’ army I’m destined
Behind my sword a thousand angels I’ve summoned
Your evil’s put me in a trance… crazed I stand
On your graves my anger shall dance… understand
I remodel valour… Aabis the warrior
In my mind
* * *
I am Aabis, the recalled, the school, the symbol
Through worlds of love my Master’s love’s made me spiral
I teach man who seeks Imam Hussain’s revival
That his love, it can throw men’s minds out of control
So know O’ army that sees me crazed and mental
My body dies, but my name shall be immortal
You who by my sword is buried… forgotten
Whilst my name it shall be carried… always known
For I live forever… Aabis the warrior
In my mind
* * *
(London – 07/10/11)