Having Nothing

"Every need brings in what's needed.

Pain bears its cure like a child.

Having nothing produces provisions.

Ask a difficult question,

and the marvelous answer appears.

Build a ship, 

and there will be water to float it.

The tender-throated infant cries,

and milk drips from the mother's breast.

Be thristy for the ultimate water.

Then be ready for what will come

pouring from the spring."

-- Rumi