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Untitled - by Kalil Gibran (1883-1931)

Outline: Found on a Google search after being prompted by maipenrai. On reading it, I finally managed to put a name to a poem I knew
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Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you
cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you,
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows
are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infiinite,
and He bends you with His
might that His arrows might go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so he loves the
bow that is stable.

-Kalil Gibran
Author Explanation: Kalil Gibran, Lebannese Poet and Philosopher. It seems appropriate to post this today - the first day of the Israeli/Lebannon ceasefire.
Madder
[Tue Mar 13, 2007 6:28 am] I Love Khalil Gibran
I love Khalil gibran, some of his works influenced mine.
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Ron
[Tue Mar 13, 2007 12:31 pm]
Hi Madder,

I only came across the story of the man himself while searching for the name of the poet of this one I had read before. Yeah, I can see now how a man like that can influence peoples' thinking.

Thanks for dropping by, Very Happy

Cheers

Ron.
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