My Composed Rap :

For some say  prayer is essential

For some say prayer is confidential

Most people say pray daily

Ohhh...  pray .

Pray not only when your feeling blue

but also when you feel glow.

For prayer is our constant communication to Him

  the Father.

Though God is always near to us,

 if you didn't pray,

you can't manage to feel His presence.

 Ohh , yeah .
pray.. pray ..

 This drawing represents my understanding and interpretation on Kahlil Gibran's poem, On Children.

I drew a gold for they represents the children whose prize and value were uncountable,immeasurable.

The hand in the right side is the hand of God Almighty, who placed the gold in the care of parents.

It is the responsibility of the parents now to take good care of the golds for they were not their property and anytime God will get them back from them.

The hand with a purse is a hand that get the children away from the parents. It maybe the will of the children or their fate.

Kahlil Gibrans' Poem that Srikes Me Most:

On Prayer
 Kahlil Gibran

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.


For what is prayer but the expansion of yourself into the living ether?
And if it is for your comfort to pour your darkness into space, it is also for your delight to pour forth the dawning of your heart.
And if you cannot but weep when your soul summons you to prayer, she should spur you again and yet again, though weeping, until you shall come laughing.
When you pray you rise to meet in the air those who are praying at that very hour, and whom save in prayer you may not meet.
Therefore let your visit to that temple invisible be for naught but ecstasy and sweet communion.
For if you should enter the temple for no other purpose than asking you shall not receive:
And if you should enter into it to humble yourself you shall not be lifted:
Or even if you should enter into it to beg for the good of others you shall not be heard.
It is enough that you enter the temple invisible.


I cannot teach you how to pray in words. God listens not to your words save when He Himself utters them through your lips.
And I cannot teach you the prayer of the seas and the forests and the mountains.
But you who are born of the mountains and the forests and the seas can find their prayer in your heart,
And if you but listen in the stillness of the night you shall hear them saying in silence,
"Our God, who art our winged self, it is thy will in us that willeth.


It is thy desire in us that desireth.
It is thy urge in us that would turn our nights, which are thine, into days which are thine also.
We cannot ask thee for aught, for thou knowest our needs before they are born in us:
Thou art our need; and in giving us more of thyself thou givest us all."

An Essay based on Kahlil Gibrans Poem About Children:

Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

I found this line very much striking for it is indeed true that our children are not ours. They are just like jewels which value is incalculable entrusted to us by God that at any time He will get it back. Therefore, we should not think that we own the our children that sometimes we come to a point that we control their lives, we dictate them what course to be take, friends and peoples to be with, and etc. In addition, no one can lose something he/she has not possessed,and so, we should be ready for anytime our children will be gone from our sight. Also, we can't control the lives of our children for they have their own lives, own legend to fulfill, we are just merely an instrument and little god in fulfilling such legend of theirs. Keeping those children would be tantamount to stealing them, therefore, we should set them free but must not forget to give them penetration, the values and skills along with them,so that they too, will be ready to face the battle of their lives.
God entrusted them to our care, and there will a time that he will come to fetch them back. Its just a matter of readiness and acceptance.

My Assigned Poem:

On Children
Kahlil Gibran

Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children
as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might
that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
so He loves also the bow that is stable.