Saaxiib Qurux Badan

I walk into the garden,
I will not lose my way.
A bed of roses is waiting for me there,
At the autumn of each day.

. . . I walk into the silence,
I hear the garden call my name.
A bed of roses still waiting for me there,
In the paradise we’ll make.

– “The Long Ride Home”
by Kiki Dee and Carmello Luggeri
(from their 2022 album The Long Ride Home)

See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• Undone
• Allow Everything to Rest Right Now
• Saaxiib Qurux Badan – February 14, 2023
• Saaxiib Qurux Badan – January 16, 2023
• Saaxiib Qurux Badan – January 4, 2023
• Saaxiib Qurux Badan – August 25, 2022
• Saaxiib Qurux Badan – February 13, 2022
• Saaxiib Qurux Badan – November 25, 2021
• Just One Wish
• Saaxiib Qurux Badan – June 29, 2021
• Blue Yonder
• Somalia Bound
• Adnan . . . Amidst Mississippi Reflections and Forest Green

Image: Saaxiib Qurux Badan (“Beautiful Friend”), Minneapolis, MN – Michael J. Bayly (5/24/23).