a wandering woman writes

Saturday, May 13, 2006

A mighty kindness

Zero Circle
by Rumi

Be helpless, dumbfounded
Unable to say yes or no.
Then a stretcher will come from grace
to gather us up.

We are too dull-eyed to see that beauty.
If we say we can, we're lying.
If we say No, we don't see it,
that No will behead us
And shut tight our window onto spirit.

So let us rather not be sure of anything,
Beside ourselves, and only that, so
Miraculous beings come running to help.
Crazed, lying in a zero circle, mute,
We shall be saying finally,
With tremendous eloquence, Lead us.
When we have totally surrendered to that beauty,
We shall be a mighty kindness.



Picked up from Andrea at Superhero Journal, who always seems to hit me on just the right day.

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2 Comments:

  • I do like Rumi, thanks for posting this :)

    By Blogger Di Mackey, at 11:34 PM  

  • Isn't that gorgeous? I'd never read it before. Love the zero circle image, but it's that last line that gets me.

    By Blogger Erin, at 8:30 PM  

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