Please listen to the song below. I learned of it from Tenderheartmusings, the very beautiful blog of Himani.
It’s nice to stop what you’re doing, and simply sit still with this song in the air.
Please listen to the song below. I learned of it from Tenderheartmusings, the very beautiful blog of Himani.
It’s nice to stop what you’re doing, and simply sit still with this song in the air.
See the video below of one of Trevor Hall’s lesser known songs. For those who consider them, its lyrics (below the video) read like some of the old plaintive Sufi poems.
It’s refreshing to take in a modern form of art (music, poetry, etc.) that speaks to things universal.
A Sunny Sky
Well I am down down down
No one around
And in this town town town
Well I can’t hear a sound
It seems I’m always lost
I’m never found
Oh I am down
So down
Hanging around
It seems my skies are always
They’re always grey
So I stay inside
I don’t go out and play
Oh the flowers try to bloom in my heart
Oh they try
But they just can’t start
Because it’s just too dark
This song is not a joke
Well I do not smoke
I may have tried a couple times
But I always choked
Oh you see I tell the truth
I’m not telling lies
I’m just waiting
I’m just waiting
On a sunny sky
Well I bought a couple maps
Trying to find my way back to you
But after trying to read them once or twice
Well I just got confused
There are too many roads
And there are too many turns
Oh this life is a forest fire
And I’m getting burned
I’m getting burned
I never knew a man’s heart could
Could get so lonely
Now if some one knows a remedy
Then please won’t you show me
Because I’m running out of chords
And I’m running out of songs
I’m in the darkest part of night now
Just waiting for the dawn
For the dawn
Well I’ve tried many things
I’ve even prayed
I tried to talk to a couple of strangers
But they just ran away
I don’t know if it’s the way I look or the things I say
I’m just lost
A simple man
Trying to find his way
This song is not a joke
Well I do not smoke
I may have tried a couple times
But I always choked
Oh you see I’m telling the truth
I’m not telling lies
I’m just waiting
I’m just waiting
On a sunny sky
The sons of Adam are limbs of each other,
Having been created of one essence.
When the calamity of time affects one limb,
The other limbs cannot remain at rest.
If you have no sympathy for the troubles of others,
You are unworthy to be called by the name of a Human.
~ Bani Adam, by Sa’adi of Shiraz
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A 13th century Sufi knew this. Yet today much of humanity seems to live as if completely unaware of this existential truth. May we all be granted a return to the Source of Truth.
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Hi All,
Please see this wonderful post by Sonya Kassam over at her blog. Her blog is filled with her beautiful poetry, observations, and perspectives.
This post is inspired by the recent terrorist attack on the dargah of Hazrat Lal Shah Baz Qalandar in Sehwan.
Until later…
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