917. Possibility and impossibility

When I tell you
To give me your love,
I ask no impossibility.
You just give it.

When I tell you
To give me your devotion,
I ask no impossibility.
You just give it.

When I tell you
To give me your surrender,
I ask no impossibility.
You just give it.

But
When I ask you to give me
Your ignorance-night,
I ask an impossibility.
It seems you can never give it.
Sri Chinmoy, Europe-Blossoms, Aum Press, Puerto Rico, 1974