{"id":377,"date":"2008-09-25T22:07:39","date_gmt":"2008-09-25T22:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/nucleus-import\/?p=377"},"modified":"2008-09-25T22:07:39","modified_gmt":"2008-09-25T22:07:39","slug":"behzad-mohit-a-sufis-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/behzad-mohit-a-sufis-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Behzad   Mohit \/  A Sufi\u2019s Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"rightbox\"><img src='https:\/\/mahmag.org\/nucleus-import\/media\/2\/20080926-dream dance.jpg' width='173' height='140' alt='dream dance by Nourima' \/><\/div>\n<p>\nFree from the boiling blood on this Earth.<br \/>\nLet my tears pour down from the sky<br \/>\nAnd drench the fire of revenge in Man\u2019s heart.<!--more--><b>A Sufi\u2019s Prayer<\/b><br \/>\nI am a tumbleweed in the night desert<br \/>\nRolling on sand dunes, aimlessly through life.<br \/>\nThe wind sings through my hollow body<br \/>\nThe song of the nomadic Sufi.<br \/>\nI stagger from side to side<br \/>\nLaughing at myself, drunk with love.<br \/>\nOh, you the prairie coyote<br \/>\nTake me on the wing of your howl<br \/>\nTo the cold midnight moon.<br \/>\nLay me there to rest,<br \/>\nFree from the boiling blood on this Earth.<br \/>\nLet my tears pour down from the sky<br \/>\nAnd drench the fire of revenge in Man\u2019s heart.<br \/>\nOr<br \/>\nYou may devour me for nourishment<br \/>\nBut<br \/>\nMake a flowerbed on my bones<br \/>\nFor the roses and jasmines,<br \/>\nOr<br \/>\nBetter yet, make my remains be<\/p>\n<p>The food for the dandelions:<br \/>\nWishing well,<br \/>\nTo all life on Earth\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;<br \/>\nInspired by the events of September 11, 2001, Behzad<br \/>\n &#8212;<br \/>\nCreative Incubator.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free from the boiling blood on this Earth. Let my tears pour down from the sky And drench the fire of revenge in Man\u2019s heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":546,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/546"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}