The quest

 Sometimes Revealed

Sometimes Hidden

Sometimes in this city

Sometimes on that path

These secrets of the infinite realms!

I keep searching for them,

Sometimes here

And sometimes there.

With this thought,

I set out on this journey,

Letting my existence turn to dust

So that if I find it,

I can rebuild my own place.

Sometimes,

I blended myself into the dust;

Sometimes,

I erased my own self.

Sometimes lost in self-oblivion,

Sometimes in deep restlessness,

Sometimes in the sun,

Sometimes in the shade,

Sometimes in the desert,

Sometimes in burning embers,

Sometimes in the wilderness,

Sometimes in the sea,

Wherever I felt drawn,

I went there.

Sometimes I trampled

Upon my own self,

Sometimes I left myself alone,

With the fire of meditation,

I set out—

Wandering, sometimes stumbling,

I continued searching

On this path,

In the quest for that destination.

- Shamaila Khan