THE PROPHETS’ FOOTPRINTS 14″x18″ acrylic on canvas

Prophets' Footprints (c) 2006 Aida Toure

Description: This painting celebrates the lovers’ aspirations to follow the prophets (as) in their unity. The center of the piece here represents the inner/outer Kabba/Center where the prophets (as) of The Divine converged, leaving their luminous footprints for us to trace and follow with grace and love. “The Prophets Footprints” started from this poem.

~ The Prophets’ Footprints ~

Look at what you started!

Love has knocked again…

A kiss on your hand’s scent

and the soul collapses, every time

with the wish to no longer be.

Who will attenuate this tender

teasing that only you can do?

You drop red gold nuggets

on the believers’ prayer mat,

Love nurses their fragments

and the royally wretched

ego walks out but to follow

the prophets (as) footprints.

We delight in not-being

and in laying at your feet,

alternately.

There is the flirtation

we wanted: continuous,

lingering long enough

to silence the bells

of grief, of temporality.

Your kindness has left

our shy hearts confounded

wondering how we are

worthy of all this Mercy.

2007 copyrights Aida Toure.