Then a lawyer said, "But what of our Laws, master?"
And he answered:
You delight in laying down laws,
Yet you delight more in breaking them.
Like children playing by the ocean who build sand-towers with
constancy and then destroy them with laughter.
But while you build your sand-towers the ocean brings more sand to
the shore,
And when you destroy them, the ocean laughs with you.
Verily the ocean laughs always with the innocent.
But what of those to whom life is not an ocean, and man-made laws
are not sand-towers,
But to whom life is a rock, and the law a chisel with which they
would carve it in their own likeness?
What of the cripple who hates dancers?
What of the ox who loves his yoke and deems the elk and deer of
the forest stray and vagrant things?
What of the old serpent who cannot shed his skin, and calls all
others naked and shameless?
And of him who comes early to the wedding-feast, and when over-fed
and tired goes his way saying that all feasts are violation and all feasters
law-breakers?
What shall I say of these save that they too 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 weathervane 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 judgment if you tear off
your garment yet leave it in no man's path?
People of Orphalese, you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen
the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?
By Kahlil Gibran
Referensi :
Http:https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmvMrzQ8RzejrpuRP_wjWkql_eYr0E7813yF2CWgsKqJgboVFps4hIUcQzuGfn3UAY97oNWP94A4pKioanABTM6tVBnWJ5-1YqZcdYZZueBEQho_ccNDMcQ-0AqDfyt61SSHAAs8spqS4/s1600/479089-1024x768-940x624.jpg
No comments:
Post a Comment
Bagi para pengunjung web ini, diharapkan untuk memberikan komentar, kritik atau saran demi semakin baiknya kualitas web yang dikelola admin. Jika ada yang berniat untuk mengkopi artikel harap menuliskan sumbernya, berupa URL artikel yang dicopy. Jika ada yang ingin artikelnya ditampilkan di web ini harap mengirimkan ke orangelifes@gmail.com.