Water is Life @ Deviant Art (digital blasphemy.com)

Please play the live recording of this poem that I did at a reading in 2010 to the beautiful music of Karunesh.

Oasis Moon
for Umahmad

You are my other prayer, the one that has never been answered.
You are the fleeting memory that’s getting lost in a circle of reality,
Sacred words uttered with little faith, forehead submitting to the floor,
The repetitive question “why?” the never-to -be- revealed unsolved mystery.

Once upon our time you glided down the streets of the Middle East,
My eyes followed you everywhere, all my dreams included you.
Do you understand why now I must protest this shifting script,
That asks of you to be locked up in slippers and bathrobe,
Thorazined in a room with no view?

Yes, perhaps for effect, I might have let you get lost for awhile,
If I could have…