This Is All I Know
By: Jehangir Saleh
Written: February 14, 2002

I will reveal myself
To the bare moon
And make my salt
Where the land embraces
The sea

I will sleep
Aside the holy books
Their covers torn –
Pressed as one,
Reveal a single revelation

I will weep rosewater
And sip my tears

I will curdle myself
In hope
And hope

In this moment
I am a single
Drop of fluid
Gently tortured
By the sea