Like the movie we watched together yesterday, even though there is no spring season in Singapore, you will always represent new growth in my heart.
That hesitant figure, eddying away
Like a winged seed loosened from its parent stem,
Has something I never quite grasp to convey
About nature’s give-and-take — the small, the scorching
Ordeals which fire one’s irresolute clay.
I have had worse partings, but none that so
Gnaws at my mind still. Perhaps it is roughly
Saying what God alone could perfectly show —
How selfhood begins with a walking away,
And love is proved in the letting go.
These words of Cecil Day Lewis from his poem Walking Away resonated in my soul. Yes, they are walking away because they're able to. And their direction is up and onwards. What more joy can a parent expect.
