Wake Up

From Rumi:

For years, copying other people, I tried to know myself.
From within, I couldn’t decide what to do.
Unable to see, I heard my name being called.
Then I walked outside.

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
Don’t go back to sleep.

You must ask for what you really want.
Don’t go back to sleep.

People are going back and forth across the doorsill
where the two worlds touch.

The door is round and open.
Don’t go back to sleep.

From William Stafford’s “A Ritual to Read to Each Other”:

For it is important that awake people be awake,
or a breaking line may discourage them back to sleep;
the signals we give – yes, or no, or maybe -
should be clear: the darkness around us is deep.