The Jinni Arrived

Offering a poem from times that survived

With strange rhyme and metre he revived

A Jinni claiming to be a courtier of Akbar arrived:

“All the same here and now, with only the highest of grade

In ancient Dara, weapons and love - the stock of trade

You really think that Humayun simply just slipped?

After consulting all his astrologers he still tripped?

Your forefathers took these rajput plaines in 1526

Under the cover of wild beasts in a raging blitz

They had muskets whilst others had elephants

Alas today where is your source of relevance

Today they have ornaments

Where you have the adorned”

I responded:

“You fell into my heart from the universe unlocked

Painting the skies of my soul with your reflection

Unleash the thunder of this beating chest in echos across the seas of Solomon

Where the ancient halls transcend the centuries of our lives

And the fossilized mirror on the wall merges into the cracks

Of a single…

Perfect…

Love....”

He knelt before my eyes, this time in the right direction - finally.

I Know