Shade us by Your Throne Poem
“Shade us by Your Throne”
by Novid Shaid, 2003
When the Sun is two bows’ length,
When the heat will not subside
Shade us by Your Throne, O Lord
Shade us by Your Throne.
On the day the Horn erupts
While the living ones devise
Shade us by Your throne O Lord,
Shade us by Your throne.
When the Trump is blown again
And the souls are assembled,
On the day the Trump summons
All that are and all that were,
Naked, sweating, trembling
None can flee the summoning,
Shade us by Your throne O Lord
Shade us by Your throne.
When all stand upon the plain
And there’s nowhere left to run
Not a tree to shrink behind
Not a crack to crawl into,
Shade us by Your throne O Lord
Shade us by Your throne.
When the lords and the paupers
Are standing equal side by side
When the wild and the jinn
Are still and silent by our sides,
Shade us by Your Throne O lord
Shade us by Your Throne.
When our nakedness won’t shame us
As we’re weighing up in vain,
Some are crawling on their bellies
Faces drag bodies along
Shade us by Your throne O Lord
Shade us by Your throne.
When the Sun is on our heads,
And the perspiration floods,
Some are drowning in their sweat
For the sins they had amassed,
Shade us by Your throne O Lord
Shade us by Your throne.
When the heavens rend asunder
Flowing silver and yellow
When the heaven’s molten copper
And the mountain’s carded wool
Shade us by Your throne O Lord
Shade us by Your throne.
When our mothers have renounced us
And our children won’t come near
And our friends have all dispersed
As they have other pressing cares,
Shade us by Your throne O Lord
Shade us by Your Throne.
When there’s no one left to turn to
When there’s no-where left to run
Shade us by Your Throne O Lord
Shade us by Your Throne.
When the Sun is two bows’ length
When the heat will not subside,
Shade us by Your Throne O Lord,
Shade us by Your Throne.
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Novid Shaid is an English Language and Literature teacher at a secondary school in Bucks, UK. I have written poetry, short stories and a play based around the subjects of Islam, Sufism, and also contemporary issues like war, multi-culturalism and surviving as a Muslim in the western world.
