ZERO
CIRCLE
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.
RUMI
