Of My Children

O, you, that carry me
That leave me never behind

O you, children, light of my eyes
That carry me ever forward

That carry, unknowingly, the tremendous weight I carry
And make it ever light, my lack of lightness of being

Unbearable, yet never fleeting

And you, that shine that light over unbearable me
When darkness ever prevails

Even through the light that I shine myself
Through the shadows that envelop me

(Light I cannot see)

Enclose me, yet extract me to make you me
Remove me deeply from the I and the eye of the I and the eye of my I and my eye

And my eyes that see little from what they could see
Make me see more within than I would ever, farther and further

Without me

But the anchor, my children?
The anchor is thee.