| "Respect the Child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions. Respect the Child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude." Ralph Waldo Emerson  |
| My Mother & Father visit me in Senegal, 1983 |
A Prayer for My Father
by Robert Bly
Your head is still
restless, rolling
east and west.
That body in you
insisting on living
is the old hawk
for whom the world
darkens.
If I am not
with you when you die,
that is just.
It is all right.
That part of you cleaned
my bones more
than once. But I
will meet you
in the young hawk
whom I see
inside both
you and me; he
will guide
you to the Lord of Night,
who will give you
the tenderness
you wanted here.
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