With everything, patient… with your love, impatient
Daily, you, I lament… Hussain
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He whose name sleeps in my heart… and there, it tears it apart
My eyes, windows to the beauty of your name
Seven letters that I’ve loved… form to become my beloved
With my heartbeat, part of my blood you became
I searched for your beauty… and found it within me
In me, a tragedy… Hussain
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With or without intention… your love crowned my creation
And in smiles and cries, it became my pride
If in sadness, my tears pour… I sit, weeping, at your door
And till your hand comforts me, there I reside
My heart like an orphan’s… at your touch it softens
And my love it becomes… Hussain
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To a servant, a master… or to a son, a father
Your love became one of comfort and of care
Daily, I’d wake and recall… how, in the night, you I’d call
With the sunrise and sunset, your love I’d share
On one side a beloved… whilst I want to be loved
By one, never unloved… Hussain
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If deep in my heart you sleep… you wake when for you I weep
And you see me torn apart for your trials
When rivers of tears I shed… you present to me your head
And its ears hear the sweetness of our wails
If for you I lament… you hear every moment
And to me you present… Hussain
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Flowing deep within my blood… your name flows as a beloved
It feels everything I think and feel
Your love to my heart you taught… you became my every thought
At your greatness my destiny would kneel
Entranced by your greatness… root of my happiness
Ka’ba of my sadness… Hussain
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I surrendered my sorrow… whilst you became my shadow
And it draws pictures of your trials and pain
All else, became meaningless… my life became your sadness
And in my heart’s soil I planted Hussain
Your day I remembered… to it, I surrendered
By one, I was honoured… Hussain
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(London – 13/04/13)