Upon oceans of tears your ship set sail
Angels embrace you with their wings and wail
Prophets weep and Prophets mourn… as your absence leaves them torn
Angels embrace you with their wings and wail
* * *
The moon refuses to set… watching your head with blood wet
Can this lion have those scars… has Ali with his death met?
Adam’s eyes upon you wept… on his tears Noah’s ark sat
Your daughter drowned it with hers… from her body her soul leapt
Each eye to you has a debt… their tears extinguish sunset
With each tear falling are stars… your presence none can forget
In some eyes the undefeated defeated
But in your eyes O’ Haider you succeeded
With your death sorrows are born… as your absence leaves them torn
Angels embrace you with their wings and wail
* * *
Upon the Earth strikes thunder… to ashes it would render
Every heart that loves Ali… like orphans our hearts tender
The one of grace and wonder… he who on him minds ponder
Left on nights of destiny… and fatherless we wander
Orphans with no defender… no Uhud and no Badr
Upon this tragedy… how many weep O’ Haider?
All orphaned without the father of orphans
Upon our heads shatters the skies and Heavens
With your absence dies the dawn… as your absence leaves them torn
Angels embrace you with their wings and wail
* * *
From crying none can refrain… from its tears each eye in pain
Fragile like a spider’s web… shattered by the tears that rain
Your battles left in disdain… this the hero of Hunayn
Can the one who killed Marhab… on this night really be slain?
Angels wail and complain… the deserts weep, every grain
Your absence a broken rib… within Hassan and Hussain
Eyes are tortured by the absence of Ali
Is the one who conquered Khaybar killed, really?
To live in grief hearts have sworn… as your absence leaves them torn
Angels embrace you with their wings and wail
* * *
Wails are the only sound… as lowered into the ground
And into dust is dust’s father… and by dust Haider is drowned
A grave prepared your sons found… to this grave the hearts are bound
Recieves you Adam and Noah… by your grave their graves are crowned
Your grave the angels surround… and the stars circle around
Crying out “farewell O’ Karrar”… their cheeks with their wings they pound
Your absence leaves shrouds of darkness in our world
We only hope that in the next, you we hold
Smiles from faces withdrawn… as your absence leaves them torn
Angels embrace you with their wings and wail
* * *
(London – 18/07/14)