Grateful To Allah

For a month and a day
i have sat pondering
Looking for verse to express
The gratitude due YOU.
It is not the muse that is lacking
For all around me i see
YOUR creation, wonders, bounties
All the blessings YOU Alone give.
Yet to sit and try to find words
There are few:
SubhanALLAH
AlhamdulALLAH

A poem of two phrases only
Seems hardly sufficient to convey
The tears when i hear YOUR Words
The aching heart that longs for YOUR Face
The awe when i pause to consider
All YOU have placed before me:
SubhanALLAH
AlhamdulALLAH

That is all i can say
Would that i could limit
Silence my tongue from heedlessness
And complaining
That i might say nothing more
Forever
than:
SubhanALLAH
AlhamdulALLAH

© Aaminah Hernández – 2008