Yusef Amin is a Maryland native and a social worker for Islamic American Zakat Foundation. Here, he shares an original poem to reflect his journey as an American Muslim.
I am …could you repeat that? … draw closer with me
Did you say that?.. I am… approach with me
the theology of time
then come with me to the echo of the mind
I am heaven and hell folded in intellect
I am present and future in retrospect
I am the sunset limited riding off into the void
I am the elegant theory never created nor destroyed
I am Adam’s projection
I am Osiris’s erection
My mother is Mary
My wife is Isis
My Joseph, Judas, and Jesus are priceless
My last name is Infinity and X
My particle is next
My nebula neurons reverberate
My sex channels the charms of create
I am father to the four elements
I am savior to the sinner’s sentiments
I am the third day
I am affecting time backward every time I pray
I am the fulfillment of scripture
I am the reflection in the pictures
My wrinkles are the sphinx on my face
My sad eyes are blue prints of time and space
My gray in my beard are 360.1 secrets held in Christ’s head
My walk and my swag are Jacob’s injured leg
She is water to winter and to the summer she is waves
She is dusk’s dark daughter and what the devil craves
She is funk she is jazz she is soul
She is wind she is flash she is O
She is the nurse protector of the light rain dropping
Her articulated amusement can expunge throbbing
Her childrearing hips are times crimson lips
Her thighs are depth perception’s blind grips
Her breasts are monuments to high science
Her validations is the course of self reliance
Her mastery of martial science is the built of her body
Her massive mammary is milk mishandled to illuminati
Her massive mammary is memory
Her holiness mother of virginity
She can impede imperialism with her wink
She can emerald wastelands with what she drink
She can originate inner orgasms in outer space
She can conclude the calendar with how she taste
She can resolve conflicts in science and religion with her existence
She can award wishes with willpower wind speed chimera resistance
Come sit at the table of humanity with me…
Sipping breast milk tea
In the Eden of she
Now what once was wet is, “We”…
Bumping bellybuttons penetrating portals to orgasmic providence
The hips hump is ankhs answer to epoch spent through relevance
Perpetually, 12 o’clock reminiscent of Jesus’ peers
If you want, we may well do this every 4000 years
Parishioners preserved on papyrus papal tears
Finally, we collectively shed our cosmic fears
Come walk through the multi-versity with me…
Let’s redefine worth
Let’s establish the United States of Earth
Let’s put pen to paper potential with precision
Let’s find the First United Church of Every Religion
Let’s throw of the shackles of matters and pretension
Let’s morph into the energy of thought and intention
Approach to the end of the almanac
undress in the abyss then we will go back
We sink seeds in the seat of sweet sonar’s sugary surrender
We project pious perceptions our primal protein pretender
We baptize safe bodies in bubble bath
We hold hands, we hug, and we laugh
We inherit the clay that emerged from the sea
We turn ancient astronaut theory into history
