Awareness

Islam was a vehicle

to reach and love God

Muslims made it a pinnacle

and the vehicle became God

 

Yes, religion can be spiritual

raising you above yourself

Like pain can be instrumental

Crushing you below yourself

 

Like love can be psychotic

pushing you besides yourself

Like beauty can be hypnotic

pulling you beyond yourself

 

Above , below ,beside, beyond,

Whatever route to reach that ground

So clean, so pristine, so unbound

Where awareness in all its glory dawn.

                                                         Alara

 

 

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