A Mercy Case

write it into your mind

lying down

lights off

sleep waiting

to end another day

لا إله إلا الله

لا إله إلا الله

لا إله إلا الله

there is so much

that i can’t carry with me

to where i must go

but You do not need to be carried

You created that place

and all who dwell there

Witnessing the dream-fears of every heart

so You

“O Inward in Your Outwardness”

be with me

through the remembrance

that You know my dreams even when i cannot say them

and encompass my fears even as i run from them

“suffice me

in my worries regarding both this world and the Hereafter

O Most Merciful of those who show mercy“