August 2018 - Compassion Group Notes

 Tired of Speaking Sweetly

Love wants to reach out and manhandle us,


Break all our teacup talk of God.


If you had the courage and


Could give the Beloved His choice, some nights,


He would just drag you around the room


By your hair,


Ripping from your grip all those toys in the world


That bring you no joy.


Love sometimes gets tired of speaking sweetly


And wants to rip to shreds


All your erroneous notions of truth


That make you fight within yourself, dear one,


And with others,


Causing the world to weep


On too many fine days.


God wants to manhandle us,


Lock us inside of a tiny room with Himself


And practice His dropkick.


The Beloved sometimes wants


To do us a great favor:


Hold us upside down


And shake all the nonsense out.


But when we hear


He is in such a "playful drunken mood"


Most everyone I know


Quickly packs their bags and hightails it


Out of town.

~Hafiz

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