See Us Fly

What will our children do in the morning?

Will they wake with their hearts

wanting to play,

the way beings with wings should?

Will they have dreamed

of flight and gathered the strength

from the planets

that all men and women need

to balance the wonderful charms

of the earth so that her power and beauty

does not make us forget our own?

I know all about the ways of the heart –

how it wants to be alive.

Love so needs to love

that it will endure almost anything,

even abuse, just to flicker for a moment.

But the sky’s mouth is kind,

its song will never hurt you,

for I sing those words.

What will our children do in the morning

if they do not see us fly?

~Mavlana Jalaladin Rumi

(1207-1273 Persian Poet and Mystic)

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