Humility Is the Eye of the Needle
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And I am a camel, hulking, clumsy.
Go through! Go through! And suddenly everything
Is easy and simple and paradise forms, mortals, ordained.
In the sandy sea the waves are yellow.
Among them I am lost, a desert ship.
O God, let me go through! Let the Will of the Pilot
Henceforth change the set of the sail.
Let me become like thread, and put anxiety aside,
So the doorkeeper’s hand will lead
Me through the triumphal gates
Of the eye of the needle.
~Yelena Rubisova (translated from the Russian by Thomas Bird)
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