Your Children are not Your Children
An interesting poem about your children written many years ago by Kahlil Gibran. This poetry gives you thoughts to reflect upon and the verses are ones that make you stop and think. We hope you enjoy the words of this very famous poet and writer.Poet: Kahlil Gibran
They come through you but not from you,
You may give them your love
You may house their bodies
You may strive to be like them,
You are the bows from which your children
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
Let your bending in the Archer's hand be for gladness;
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of
life's longing for itself.
And though they are with you
yet they belong not to you.
but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit,
not even in your dreams.
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward not tarries with yesterday.
as living arrows are sent forth.
and bends you with might that the arrows may go swift and far.
For even as the Archer loves the arrow that flies,
so the Archer also loves the bow that is stable.
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