Your children

                               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

                               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 …

                                                              -- Khalil Gibran