April 13, 2021: Don't Refuse

Don’t Refuse
 
Do you ever feel
  As though people are using you?
    You know, you’re not alone . . .
Do you ever feel sad
  About those that are losing you
    When they look at your wonder and groan?
Do you ever wonder
  What it I that’s confusing you
    When you’ve got your whole life to own?
Why do you feel
  That the world’s just amusing you
    When it’s hard as a rock and you’re chilled to the bone?
 
It’s up to who?
  And when are you through?
    And how do you know what you’ve got to do to be loved?
It’s what is the use?
  I’m a circus recluse
    In the chains of a freak.
    Let me loose!  Let me loose!
In a cold, dark cell, I wait for the noose.
 
Or is it that the toll of the iron bell is to
Break the evil spell,
Drag me from my shell,
Tear me out of a hell of a lot
That I don’t know how to use?
 
When I’m free from the wall
  I’ll led you to choose –
You who thought I had only to lose!
But you’ll know if I find you.
Please don’t refuse to be loved.

April 13, 2021: With that Moon Language by Hafiz in "The Gift", page 322

With that Moon Language

Admit something:

Everyone you see, you say to them,
"Love me."

Of course you do not do this out loud:
Otherwise,
Someone would call the cops.

Still, though, think about this,
This great pull in us
To connect.

Why not become the one
Who lives with a full moon in each eye
That is always saying,

With that sweet moon
Language,

What every other eye in this world
Is dying to
Hear.