On Children

Photo Story On Children By Khalil Gibran

1. On Children
By Kahlil Gibran, As interpreted
by Sweet Honey In the Rock
Patrick Shields

2. Your children

3. Are not your children

4. They are the sons and daughters

5. Of life’s longing for it’s self

6. They come through you

7. But they are not from you

8. And though they are with you

9. They belong not to you

10. You can give them your love

11. But not your thoughts

12. They have their own thoughts

13. They have their own thoughts

14. You can house their body’s

15. But not their souls

16. For their souls dwell in a place of
tomorrow

17. Which you can not visit

18. Not even in your dreams

19. You can strive to be like them

20. You can strive to be like them

21. But can not make them just like
you

22. But can not make them just like
you