THE WAY WINGS SHOULD -- Rumi (Redux)

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THE WAY WINGS SHOULD

 

 

 

What will

our children do in the morning?

Will they wake with their hearts wanting to play,

the way wings

should?

 

 

 

Will they have dreamed the

needed flights 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?

 

 

 

~ Rumi ~

 

 

(Love Poems From God: Twelve Sacred

Voices from the East and West by Daniel Ladinsky)

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