Dark Chocolate Smeared Bedsheets

POWER WASHING PAIN

Muse as Life’s Stain Remover

A juice glass of red wine
poised upon a bar
of dark chocolate.
Lamp light singing –

moonlit muezzin
from a minaret upon a nightstand.

Hayya alas salah
Come to prayer.
Beseech and revere
the One, the All, Song
within the beams.

Sun in a night shaded sky.
Moon at noon.
Trust washing like lava
with no cool cycle
throughout byways and boulevards
littered with quashed gnats

drawn to the light –
too ignorant, too arrogant
to keep a respectful distance
until summoned.

Hayya alal falah
Come to well-being, refreshment
even as
the dark chocolate bar breaks unprettily,
smearing the bedsheets.

Trust
the urging of impishly patient angels.

Assalatu khayrum minan naum
Prayer is better than sleep.

Allow this Dream
to be laundered.

©Jenine Bsharah Baines 2022

It all comes out in the wash, I’ve learned. Although some of life’s ‘stains’ need repeated washings, don’t they?

Yet the Muse — like Light, life force, The Beloved — infuses all. Even the mess I made last night of my bedsheets while breaking off a piece of dark chocolate.

Dark chocolate as super hero fighting free radicals. Dark chocolate — heart enlightenment, my Sage.

Prayers I haven’t inadvertently offended my Muslim friends by my quotations from Adhan. They were used with all reverence. My Lebanese DNA deepens with delight and awe hearing such Light-pouring of Song.

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