Saturday 14 June 2014

Mirror image

What a mess we make when we think upon our lives
Trying to turn another into our image: our children, our wives
But you know how that saying goes: individuals we all are
We cannot be made: we need to be accepted just as we are
We each have our own beginnings: we each need to grow
That's the way God intended it to be: don't you know?
So just learn to accept it: give up that silly pride
Let us all grow up as intended: let us individually show
You cannot change a leopard's spots: impossible to even try
For all will be as God intended: that’s the truth: do or die!

The beginning of love
Is to let those we love
Be perfectly them selves
And not to twist them
To fit our own image
Otherwise we love only
The reflection of ourselves
We find in them

Thomas Merton


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