The Shirk

Those whom excuse it
The shirk are who do it
By conceiving of how
To reframe with ill thou
As though your reality is seeming
Only half what your meaning
But then that perhaps
The opposite
Which is forced upon others
As though theirs to have got
By false belief about what
You yourself have meant to express of
And within that scheme
In which no real things can seem
It came to be
That Islam was defined
Categorically
As too confoundedly
Direct
In meaning unaltered
That therefore deserving of
More of those whom are shirking
To place their attentions upon and
What they have done is
To define
Each and every of
Those who are Muslim
As though when writing
Each distinct letter
Might have so many as
Three distinct meanings
Each with trouble seeming
Two each opposing the other
And a third in opposition to both those
But might their shirk not survive me
For over and around their seeming
To be able to defy
What Islam’s meaning is and why
Have they devoured
Thus might realise
It is not I
But Allah in whom
Your terror
Is of nobody but you
Your own self
The victor and the loser
In ever Jihad the signs whose were
Always and only of those
In whose minds
Is Islam trying to be defied
Proving to us why
Not to but believe in
God’s eternal life
While the shirk upon sound meaning
Of false hermetics did they their own belief in
Those whom will not find their own respite
Through just asking alike
Who knew no shirk will ever find
What is real of whom is wrong and why
So let the shirk belie
What pestilence did and why
That war might
Famine protect by
For death’s dream will never defy
Eternal life be mine and proud
Never the shirk by