Your Children

Your Children

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 sets the mark upon the path of the infinite,
And He bends you with His might that His arrows may 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.
(Kahlil Gibran, 1882-1931, Lebanese poet, artist and mystic, Pocket Positives)
1 February 2013