The gum of zikr

The gum of zikr                                                                                

Erase yourself or help out

by letting go the string

that conducts the tinny voice

of childhood and your subsequent stages,

accumulated impressions, moods

and prejudices to the living moment,

constituting the pernicious illusion

of who you were, are and will be;

sever the continuity of personal history

from the objective present, (turning

towards the image and/or

name of the Beloved), refusing to enable,

from moment to moment,

that ghost of a mischief-maker,

letting it drift away like a lost kite,

evanesce into an ethereal sky,

amounting to the nothingness

it always was and always is,

letting go of the string,

letting go of the string,

letting go again and again

and still yet again of the string.

O child of God, take up the gum of zikr

and rub yourself out.