Lailat ul-Qadar

It is difficult to explain the prayer
to those who hold contempt in the heart
in the diseased heart, those who cannot
render an important fixation
that nestles between want and is
who do not remember the catch phrases.
We were left with two things,
the lesser and the greater
and our unholy mind to deal with.
These sickly minds of ours stock up
on junk and destitution,
store memory and vicissitude
and trade cash for cash, they cannot
comprehend destiny before it is discovered,
landed on, described and by then
replaced with fond memories
punctuated by dreams and startled by chance.
Prayer then is the cohesion of forces
and the expert is one who knows
which thing might actually be allowed,
knows which thing is not in the making
because they have paid attention
and rather than believed, have known.