I am a hypocrite
That lives in a hippo creek
Attractive like a hip so thick
My story is heap in hill to heel
Ready to hit in heat to give me heal
Let the play of words be halt
With a handcuff
And the pun in pond be plundered
To bestow amazing revelation
The chasing chance to kiss ears
I list and leased listening ears
In thousands to listen
At the age of eighteen
After drinking from the calabash of
Frustration
With the spoon of detained depression
My usual route became rude
I call it cloudy crowd crude
I, secluded in the net of hopelessness
Decided to seek refuge at the Holy ‘Markass’
Yes, Holy ‘Markass’ in the vision of
Muhammad Ilyas
The architecture of ‘Jamatu Tabliq’
He crafted the preaching tool
To wash faith’s polluted face
Kandhla beamed upon eyeing
The Saint’s natural arrival
Arabic and Persian he buried in
His memory
Ate books at Darul Uloom Deoband
In 1926, the preaching tongue
Began working and walking
1944 recorded the Reformer’s return
But his tongue keeps talking on earth
This was the movement I willingly
Recruited myself
I sojourned with the brothers
In a three days ‘huruj’
When the three days died
Faith occupied my heart heavily
My Jeans, Jerseys, and Shirts
I threw in the possession of friends
Bought ‘haftan’ and hat for
My coronation
Long trousers beheaded to fear
Reaching my ankle
Surprise sucked
The eyes of my Uncle
The Town’s ears heard my
New Religious Occupation.
Some welcomed it, others protested
As a teenager I pushed the path
Ignored the views of those
Who disliked my reform
My frustration was flushed away
Because in the Temple I was
Promised Heaven
So the hunger for Heaven melted
My depression
My late teenage was caged in this avenue
Names of God I printed in every
Corner of my room
Friends started to question my mentality
This Saintly life I stayed for two years
As I kept swimming in the pool of Sainthood
My faith faded firmly to finally zero
Then frustration slapped me hard
I absconded again
This time, my sanctuary is Music
Music mutes multiple malfunctions
That’s why she became my friend
But music was an ally since
The days of old
When I can’t correctly count
My age with numbers
I date Music as if she is the only
Love I saw and still see
Music is venom to bacteria of sadness
Music is antidote that slaughters
The invasion of unhappiness
This is how my bilateral relations
With Music came to be cemented
Without retiring from ‘Jamatu Tabliq’
With my ‘haftan’ and trouser refusing
To greet my ankle
I, I continued my honeymoon with the
Ever beautiful Queen
Who answers in a five letter word,
Music
So Hypocrisy is born
Cognitive dissonance dished dose
I didn’t care and I didn’t know
The coming tragedy will unfold fire
That will sleep in history books
For good.
Then came a day when a Friend
Entered my poor room and found
That my ears were fixed to the rhythms
Emanating from my radio set
He flew fast to unveil the journal
To his friends
That the so-called Sheikh is a Music sympathizer.
Their campaign of mockeries sent me insane
The unhygienic mouth of confusion
Swallowed me
The Town got shock on how easy
I surrendered to confusion
I couldn’t board the wisdom of Confucius
My disguised friends laughed and laughed
As if I’m the greatest Comedian
That surmounted Long John
In the Iron Industry of Omar
Where my confusion catapulted me to
I saw his Apprentice laughing at me
Till I thought his teeth will fall
Gallivanting to every corner for safe haven
Became my modus operandi
As confusion’s conflagration kidnapped
My serene mind,
I entered the fort of the
Snow dermis preacher cum ‘Salafi’ serpent
Whose blasting brain feeds on
The theory of Extremism
His detestable sight
Snubbed the Lad’s immature age
On air with his proud wings
Indicted me of hypocrisy
This drowned me deeper in turmoil
My oath opens in the name of
The Saint of Touba
To the brilliant Barhama of
Madina Baye
I’ll vomit lyrics with instruments
And bombard stage
As if shame and I
Are like North and South Korea
Wait a minute,
Should I be a Rabbi
And preach in a Synagogue?
Honestly, they’re right,
Wonders shall never end
But I’m the wonder that will never end
I’m the wonder that will never end!
I’m the wonder that will never end.
