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Tag: kindness

  • Jesus to a Child

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    George Michael

    Kindness in your eyes
    I guess you heard me cry
    You smiled at me
    Like Jesus to a child

    I’m blessed, I know
    Heaven sent and heaven stole
    You smiled at me
    Like Jesus to a child

    And what have I learned
    From all this pain?
    I thought I’d never feel the same
    About anyone
    Or anything again

    But now I know
    When you find love
    When you know that it exists
    Then the lover that you miss
    Will come to you
    On those cold, cold nights

    When you’ve been loved
    When you know it holds such bliss
    Then the lover that you kissed
    Will comfort you
    When there’s no hope in sight

    Sadness in your eyes
    No one guessed, or no one tried
    You smiled at me
    Like Jesus to a child

    Loveless and cold
    With your last breath you saved my soul
    You smiled at me
    Like Jesus to a child

    And what have I learned
    From all these tears
    I’ve waited for you all those years
    And just when it began
    He took your love away
    But I still say

    When you find love
    When you know that it exists
    Then the lover that you miss
    Will come to you
    On those cold, cold nights

    When you’ve been loved
    When you know it holds such bliss
    Then the lover that you kissed
    Will comfort you
    When there’s no hope in sight

    So the words you could not say
    I’ll sing them for you
    And the love we would have made
    I’ll make it for two
    For every single memory
    Has become a part of me

    You will always be
    My love

    Well, I’ve been loved
    So I know just what love is
    And the lover that I kissed
    Is always by my side

    Oh the lover I still miss
    Was Jesus to a child

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  • A Zero-Circle

    By Rumi

    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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