Allah's Water

Your flowing thoughts are not the attraction
that binds us together on this sacred earth
His oneness is the stillness
but who can bring you to silence
and how do you enter His garden
if you can't hear His thunder of silence?
amidst your constant movement
dedicated to flesh and its support
forever thy focus
and all thy pillars to uphold its transience
when He upholds the very sky without pillars
you flow to neither the beginning nor the end
like drops of rain upon the sand
converging into torrents of motion
that came from His stillness
by attrition will you hear His silence?
what manner of loss can I impose
to hasten thee into the water
and drift back to Him?


(18th century Sufi mystic, attribution unknown)

I see it more as a homily on the dichotomy of polytheism (secularism) and monotheism and not so much a poem, demonstrating the imbalance of life as we know it and suggesting that conflict is from a mystical standpoint a form of celebration and not resolution.