Awaken Consciousness Magazine

by Sobia Fayyaz

Today I visited many places
A mosque, a battlefield, a brothel, and a palace

Today I touched many faces
A man’s, a woman’s, a child’s and a eunuch’s

Today I saw many races
Blacks, whites, browns and the poorest of the poor

Today I wriggled out of the mazes
Of wealth, status, lineage and gender

Today I was summoned by my long-lost soul
Who dwelled on the seashore and had feathers of gold

Today my soul held me in an eternal embrace
And together we flew off to a far-away place

Today I saw the Earth from a different perspective
Where past, present and future were one; time

Today I witnessed strange unions
Of knowledge & wisdom, youth & age and crime & remorse

Today I tiptoed on the sharp blades of time’s ruthless knife
Today I was a king, a pauper, a courtesan and a wife

Today I prostrated to the God, a Buddha, an idol and the sun
Today I offered ablutions in milk, honey, blood and dirt

Today I mounted the clouds, became the dew, and the nectar of the reddest rose
Today I became the trampled ground, the polluted air and the raped nature

Today I was a suicide bomber, a martyr, a priest, and a politician
Today I became the bed of lovers, the lust of an aggressor and the nipple of a nursing mother

Today I was a guest of the constellation, the moon, the galaxies and the depths of ocean
Today my soul made love to me in all the ways I had imagined

Today my soul kissed me and awakened a consciousness of a highest degree
Today I discovered true piety lies not in religions but in love for humanity

Sobia Fayyaz is a communicator by profession and a freelance journalist by choice. She has a master’s degree in mass communication and postgraduate in corporate communications. She is an internationally published writer and her poems have been featured in Pulse, Global Woman Magazine and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.