That Sacred Place

[Author’s Note – I just thought about this as I was going to office(Smart Village or Karea Zakaeya as they call it in Egypt) in cab ]

Please take me to that sacred place
which has not been touched
by the light of practical thoughts

Where meaningless happiness resides
and children blissfully play

untouched by the hatred of adult minds
and the deceit of festering desires unfulfilled
where the children have brightness in their eyes
where the heart flows out painlessly
and the lips follow

where desires flow out easily
and everything connects as one
and everyone is alive and forever young

where pain is not suffering
and death is but sleep

let that place in my heart not be corrupted yet
maybe later but not yet not yet

let me
live one more day in innocence, let me
wallow in meaningless futile joy, let me
grow up, but one day later , Let me
laugh and shout screams of joy

Let me see you for one more day
Let my vision persist a little longer
For when it goes, my eyes will pale
my face will be rigid and my lips straight
My words will be guarded by the morality of the world
and my heart will be locked inside forever
deep inside, very deep and dark, till
someone comes to liberate it someday , or
it may never happen ever

again.

God, let me remember that place
For one more day
Let me be vulnerable for one more moment
let me give love, one last chance

before the day is done.