    Opening Other Eyes 


Children, we must leave you,
No more to be with you
As you dance the Moon
And the harvest and the Sun.

Children, we must leave you,
No more to remind you
As you dance through life
That the world and you are one.

It is time we left you
To other gods
For a while.

Yes,
Children, we must leave you
To gaze into darkness
Till you truly see
How the waking world is run.

Children, we must leave you
Adrift in the darkness
Till you've touched the Moon
And have sailed beyond the Sun

With the gods of numbers
And here-and-now
For a while.

But
Children, we'll be with you
To help you remember
And to wisely use
The power you'll have won.

Children, we'll be with you,
Rejoining, rejoicing,
When those other gods
And you and we are one,

And it's then you'll see
Why we had to leave
For a while.

                                        Thomas G. Digby
                                        written  0000 hr  4/27/82
                                        typed    0220 hr  5/11/82
                                        entered  2035 hr  3/29/92
                                        format   13:30 12/22/2001
