Thursdays Totally Informal Transglobal challenge: HOPE

Other In The Challenge:
Bev
Lee
Sheila
Veysel
Faye
Cindi
Luther and Lisa
Antidote3
Shayne
Nicky T
JD
Johnnyjag
Ann LT
Carole S
Bob F
J. Scott
Coleen
shatterbug
Zak
Ray P
Tim

What shall I say of those who
stand in the sunlight, but with their backs to the sun,
They see only their shadows, and their shadows are their laws.
And what is the sun to them but a caster of shadows?
And what is it to acknowledge the laws but to stoop down and trace their shadows upon the earth?

BUT you who walk facing the sun, what images drawn on the earth can hold you?
You who travel with the wind, what weather-vane shall direct your course?
What man's law shall bind you if you break your yoke but upon no man's prison door?
What laws shall you fear if you dance but stumble against no man's iron chains?
and who is he that shall bring you to judgement if you tear off your garment yet leave it in no man's path?

...you can muffle the drum, and you can lossen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?

Excerpt from "The Prophet" written by Lebanese poet Kahlil Gibran.

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