Happy New Year

This pair of short poems from Kabir captures the need and opportunity at then end of the year of lettings go and opening up to new possibilities.

In an Iron Boat

In an iron boat
loaded with stones,
a bundle of poison on his head,
he wants to cross over.
    
Kabir/Linda Hess-Sukhdev Sing, 
The Bijak of Kabir

Knowing Nothing

Knowing nothing shuts the iron gates.
The new love opens them.
The sound of the gates opening
   wakes the beautiful woman asleep.

Kabir says: Fantastic!
Don't let a chance like this go by!

Kabir/Bly
The Kabir Book