The Poet: Carl Sandburg, "What Shall He Tell That Son?"
“A father sees a son nearing manhood.
What shall he tell that son?
‘Life is hard; be steel; be a rock.’
And this might stand him for the storms
and serve him for humdrum and monotony
and guide him amid sudden betrayals
and tighten him for slack moments.
‘Life is a soft loam; be gentle; go easy.’
And this too might serve him.
Brutes have been gentled where lashes failed.
The growth of a frail flower in a path up
has sometimes shattered and split a rock.
A tough will counts. So does desire.
So does a rich soft wanting.
Without rich wanting nothing arrives.
And left them dead years before burial:
The quest of lucre beyond a few easy needs
Has twisted good enough men
Sometimes into dry thwarted worms.
Tell him time as a stuff can be wasted.
and to have no shame over having been a fool,
yet learning something out of every folly,
hoping to repeat none of the cheap follies,
thus arriving at intimate understanding
of a world numbering many fools.
Tell him to be alone often and get at himself,
and above all tell himself no lies about himself,
whatever the white lies and protective fronts
he may use amongst other people.
Tell him solitude is creative if he is strong,
and the final decisions are made in silent rooms.
if it comes natural and easy being different.
Let him have lazy days seeking his deeper motives.
Let him seek deep for where he is a born natural.
Then he may understand Shakespeare
and the Wright brothers, Pasteur, Pavlov,
Michael Faraday and free imaginations,
Bringing changes into a world resenting change.
He will be lonely enough
to have time for the work
he knows as his own.”
- Carl Sandburg
Source: http://coyoteprime-runningcauseicantfly.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-poet-carl-sandburg-what-shall-he.html
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