Wondrous Spirits

To my children, Allison & Robert:

I am forever grateful to their wondrous poets and poets and poems such as this:

We have not come here to take prisoners,

but to surrender ever more deeply to freedom and joy…

Run my dear,

from anything

that may not strengthen

Your precious budding wings…

For we have not come here to take prisoners

Or to confine our wondrous spirits

But to experience ever and ever more deeply

Our divine courage, freedom, and Light!

– Sufi poet, Hafiz