there was a time

there was a time when what they said mattered so much

it even brought tears to my eyes

it made me doubt my core inside

that time is gone some how some way i do not care what they say

i know i am good and thats what counts

i do not have to prove to them anything anymore

and if my taste does not match theirs' it is not a problem anymore.

how come their judgements used to matter so much?

how come i made them grow so big?

Thank God today they shrunk when my heart grew huge and big.

that time of doubt is so long gone and i can take criticism like praise, like plain water with no taste, they both have the same effect.

you think that this color does not match or that i am selfish because i did not stop my life, then think whatever.

only God can judge me, only he can see me through, only he brought me here only he can take me on a happy day for me and the beings of light who will be there waiting for me.

He creates, he judges not you and not me.

you do not become a sufi, you realize you were always one but you did not know it had a name

what made you the way you are.

you do not know so much love and worry about your heart's purity is a school of thought, is a way of life, is a way to the beloved, is sufism.