Kahlil Gibran's Poem that Strikes Me Most

On Children
 Kahlil Gibran

Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children
as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might
that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
so He loves also the bow that is stable.

RAP about the Gibran's Poem about "ON CHILDREN"

On children

We are the children of the world,

the children of hopeful tomorrow,

born with definite purpose,

born with certain goal,

to live our lives as sons and daughters of Christ.

We are the children of the Lord,

beings who share in God’s divinity,

the greatest creature He has ever created

wholly originated; wholly would return to Him

In life infinite in our eternal repose.