A GENIUS BIDS FAREWELL
If for an instant God were to forget that I am a rag doll and gifted me
with a piece of life, possibly I wouldn't say all that I think, but
rather I would think of all that I say.
I would value things, not for their worth but for what they mean. I
would sleep little, dream more, understanding that for each minute we
close our eyes we lose sixty seconds of light.
I would walk when others hold back, I would wake when others sleep. I
would listen when others talk, and how I would enjoy a good chocolate
ice cream! If God were to give me a piece of life, I would dress
simply, throw myself face first in the sun, baring not only my body but
also my soul.
My God, if I had a heart, I would write my hate on ice, and wait for
the sun to show. Over the stars I would paint with a Van Gogh, dream a
Benedetti poem, and a Serrat song would be the serenade I'd offer to
the moon.
With my tears I would water roses, to feel the pain of their thorns,
and the red kiss of their petals!
My God, if I had a piece of life, I wouldn't let a single day pass
without telling people I love that I love them.
I would convince each woman and each man that they are my favorites,
and I would live in love with love. I would show men how very wrong
they are to think that they cease to be in love when they grow old, not
knowing that they grow old when they cease to be in love!
To a child I shall give wings, but I shall let him learn to fly on his
own.
I would teach the old that death does not come with old age, but with
forgetting. So much have I learned from you, oh men!
I have learned that everyone wants to live on the peak of the mountain,
without knowing that real happiness is in how it is scaled.
I have learned that when a newborn child squeezes for the first time
with his tiny fist his father's finger, he has him trapped forever.
I have learned that a man has the right to look down on another only
when he has to help the other get to his feet.
From you I have learned so many things, but in truth they won't be of
much use, for when I keep them within this suitcase, unhappily shall I
be dying.
1 comment:
Hi would like to share with you one from nelson mandela on the occasion of his inauguration as president of south africa in 1994. It's a really powerful one.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?
Actually, who are we NOT to be?
You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel
insecure around you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within
us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our own light
shine, we unconciously give other people the permission to do the same. As we
liberate ourselves from our own fears, our prescence automatically liberates
others.
from tonette lapus mendiola
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