A Zero-Circle

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

We are too dulleyed to see the beauty.
If we say Yes we can we’ll be lying.

If we say No, we don’t see it,
that No will behead us
and shut tight the window into spirit.

So let us 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 will be saying finally,
with tremendous eloquence, Lead us.

When we’ve totally surrendered to that beauty,
we’ll become a mighty kindness.

From Say I am You
Poetry Interspersed with Stories of Rumi and Shams
Translated by John Moyne and Coleman Barks

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