It must be difficult for the IGP to know that his son has been arrested as every parent wants the best for his or her child. However, we cannot blame ourselves if our children decide to ignore all the good virtues that we have tried to instill in them.

Ultimately, every adult is responsible for his or her actions. This is a poem by Kahlil Gibran on

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 to-
morrow, 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.

-excerpt from The Prophet, by Kahlil Gibran


You can read more poems by this author here