Heartbeat - Nouri Sardar (Imam Ali Spoken Word)

‘Heartbeat’ — on the mighty love of Ali (ع). #imamali #spokenword -- What is that sound? A heartbeat? Am I alive? I thought I was gone Have I been resurrected, here beneath your dome? A revenant. Hugh Glass I can feel my heart heave As long as you can still grab a breath - you fight, you believe I climbed out from the trenches, battered, wounded, bloodied ‘You still have work to do, my friend, get back up onto your two feet’ What is that on my heart? A weight that is too heavy It’s as if I was dead and was brought back to life by Ali A love almost too mighty, oh, the might of piety Is that my light that I see again? It’s as if he adopted me Poetry Took me under his hand when I knew not of his path ‘Come to me, my child, without the burden of your past Is that salt water you’ve drunk? Here, let me quench your thirst You see the secret of all love is that I am not fourth, but first This world has brought you pain Come and feel my embrace Heartbreak gets heartbroken when it looks upon my face For I am the light of God and I light up this whole place For I am the home sought by the broken and displaced I’m the father of all orphaned - literal and spiritual I’m the father of all my lovers — no — I’m the father of all By the mercy of Allah, your bones bare my love’s weight I am one of two weighty things - Qur’an and Ahlulbayt Come to me my child, leave your pain here at my door How fleeting is your pain while I’m of legend and lore I felt his hand comfort me, comfort I found no-where else Najaf became my city and his shrine became my home I buried myself there, testifies my grey hairs The spark in my eyes gone, but that’s what happens when you’re done When you die before you die then death is what you become I killed all sense of longing, I killed the idea of ‘belong’ ‘Be long’, the road says, yes the road I walk is long Let go of the story, all that matters is the song Recite Ali’s praise and be in awe of what you become I’m sick of it, this life, it’s made me thick-skinned, I’m sick I’m a rejectionist, perfectionist Above it all, you can’t test this Love for me is a state of bliss Worlds apart, love is art, for me love is limitless If my light is too strong for you Then take a moment and reflect on it You mirror man, I mirror God You’re lost in this world, I’m one step above I’ve lost my mind, my mind is gone But without my mind my heart is strong My love is strong, I’ve won this test My heart and his heart let them mesh Until my flesh is nothing but love Till My heart beats his name and that name is enough If the price of love is death, then I’ll pay it, any cost If the price of love is heartbreak then take my heart and let it burst For love is special And I’m nothing but a vessel Let the heart weep and wrestle With love, let it make me humble Ask me about love and in Najaf I’ll write you a novel I’m back to life, faithful and I live and breathe his name He holds me on puppet strings and my tongue recites his name He purchased me a slave and thus Maytham I became They pinned me to a crucifix and I still recite his name They came after me with everything and here still I recite his name I’m dead and I’m buried but I still recite his name My body beneath the dust and yet I still recite his name Don’t you hear my voice in his shrine? How is still recites his name Echoing beneath his dome my voice still recites his name Saying Ali’s king, everything, Ali’s beginning and end Ali’s truth, nothing but truth when all others are nothing but pretend Ali’s mighty, Ali’s weighty, Ali - all faith and piety Untouchable, unbreakable Ali’s blood is all royalty Ali is truth, Ali is worth This world and all that’s in it Ali is might, Ali is sight for the blind who now bare witness Ali’s action, Ali’s golden, Ali’s captain, Ali’s Eden, Ali’s oceans, Ali’s chosen, Ali is mentioned, by Allah spoken Ali is on the frontier, Ali at the foot of fear Ali’s love is always near, Ali’s comfort always appears Ali lives in my grey hairs Ali my love and my despair I’m deaf and now all that I can hear Is that Ali is the source of all care I’m deaf and now all that I can hear Is that Ali is the source of all care What is that sound? A heartbeat? Here I am, back to life Oh your name is but the price Of love of death and oh of life Is that my heartbeat I hear again? Ali… Ali… the source of all life Oh my heart, embrace that bittersweet pain… Ali… Ali… the source of all life…. ---