Fireflies...

Wanted to share a poem that I really like.. It has come to mind several times, especially in the last month with the Tsunami and other natural disasters occuring...the following line has been echoing in my mind as I think about the tragic stories and then about how the world has come together to help:

"let my love like sunlight, surround you and yet give you illumined freedom."

Its my favorite definition/image of love...surrounded with the warmth and brightness, and an illumined path infront...

Rabindranath Tagore
1861-1941

"Fireflies"

I touch God in my song
as the hill touches the far-away sea
with its waterfall.

The butterfly counts not months but moments,
and has time enough.

Let my love, like sunlight, surround you
and yet give you illumined freedom.

Love remains a secret even when spoken,
for only a lover truly knows that he is loved.

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil
is no freedom for the tree.

In love I pay my endless debt to thee
for what thou art.