A Thought for A Great Teacher

My dear teacher Thomas McElwain
Whatever names you were given
I remember the way Yunus once replied
To Rumi about Mathnavi if he had,
"I came from the eternal,clothed
myself in flesh, and took the name
Yunus," that once he was ashamed
of his own poorness and rashness
before Hunkar's love and kindness
I too was in lost and unconscious
to Musadiq I ask and very curious
About a name written but no where
to find but a short one to share
You were named like saints
yet you were blame as cue in sins
How wonderful even you got too
the name of Lion of Who
you worship and live for
The One and Only, and no more,
That it is from you I read Bible
when many puts it like bubble
They told me Its beautiful verses
But they live for ancient curses
And soon they burst It for its loud
sounds, leaving It among the cloud
From yours I found the way back Home
at least you show me how to come
Even from my old establish religion
I get away from ignorance legion
of those telling they bring the only
Truth, and I don't care if they bully
As if Heaven is their only town
And they can control Him on their own
in Islam, in Christianity, in any faith
they seem walking in straight saith
But when they mock you in polite way
I surely can't let them not to pay
for every words they may hurt you,
for thought they should not do,
I ask The One and Only one to bless
you twice and even twelve times not less
May the Light of the Only Sovereign
enlighten you and pass to us in every reign
May the 12th Prince be always with you
with three great masters guiding you
Altogether the World might see
in The End though we were so wee
after all the anger and forlorn
may we united with Him alone
great happiness not any ruth
and only with Him the only Truth

(December, 2010)