The Thinker's Fleeting Hours

1. Not every parting needs ceremony. Sometimes you just toss a fleeting smile and walk away.

2. It's easy to be there on Facebook. In the flesh, it's something else entirely.

3. God, you made me poor, gave me torn clothes, surrounded me with faithless kin and friends—and yet planted such nobility in my heart that even avoiding all this, I see only diamonds where I look. When I should be seeing filth.

4. Even if you sit beside me now, you won't find me. Your time is spent.

5. You were near, but were you ever truly there?

6. There is so much sorrow in me that I cannot believe, not for a moment, in any story that says a person is happy.

7. If faith demands I disturb the peace of others, then godlessness is better than that god.

8. On the day of sacrifice, I too sacrificed my love. I let it go in such a way that if Allah asked me to choose anything from both worlds in return, I would refuse it. This is my sacrifice.

9. Beloved, how many more times will you wound me with a smile? Do something different, at least this once.

10. After all this, I still want to rest my head on your chest. Oh, if only I could cut this head off!