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 into 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.
I live in Turkey. So, Rumi is very important for us. I also love his poets..
Someday you should come and visit where he lived, Konya.
one of my favorites by rumi! and what a gorgeous and fitting photograph!
Posted by: la vie en rose at February 15, 2006 11:33 AM