Whats that poem about if you love someone set them free and if they come back then they belong to you..?
2006-08-15 00:26:08 · 12 answers · asked by Ash M 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Thanks guys.
Its a poem and not a song I believe. If you post it I will know which one it is...when I see it. Its quite a long poem.
2006-08-15 00:50:09 · update #1
Its a song lyric aswell, i just can't remember what it is.....
but the lyric goes if they come back to you, it was yours all along.
Sorry ill think and come back later with it!
2006-08-15 00:33:45 · answer #1 · answered by catx_pye 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ok children...heavy handed new age hippie pseudo philosophy from an old hippie mama.
If you love someone, set them free.
If they come back they're yours;
if they don't they never were.
Richard Bach wrote this before Sting took his saying and put it into a song.
He also wrote Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
The Bridge Across Forever
Messiah's Handbook: Reminders for the Advanced Soul - The Lost Book from Illusions
2006-08-15 00:44:03 · answer #2 · answered by maî 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Here's one:
Freedom And Love
by Thomas Campbell
How delicious is the winning
Of a kiss at love's beginning,
When two mutual hearts are sighing
For the knot there's no untying!
Yet remember, 'Midst our wooing,
Love has bliss, but Love has ruing;
Other smiles may make you fickle,
Tears for other charms may trickle.
Love he comes, and Love he tarries,
Just as fate or fancy carries;
Longest stays, when sorest chidden;
Laughs and flies, when press'd and bidden.
Bind the sea to slumber stilly,
Bind its odour to the lily,
Bind the aspen ne'er to quiver,
Then bind Love to last for ever.
Love's a fire that needs renewal
Of fresh beauty for its fuel:
Love's wing moults when caged and captured,
Only free, he soars enraptured.
Can you keep the bee from ranging
Or the ringdove's neck from changing?
No! nor fetter'd Love from dying
In the knot there's no untying.
2006-08-15 00:45:50 · answer #3 · answered by Clodia 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, Sting said "if you love someone, set them free". It was mentioned on Birds Of A Feather!
e e cummings wrote a poem with that sentiment, but not those words. I cannot remember the name of it.
2006-08-15 01:54:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love is like a butterfly. If you set it free and it returns to you
then it is meant to be yours.
2006-08-15 00:34:08 · answer #5 · answered by Precious Gem 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love is like a Butterfly !!
2006-08-15 00:41:00 · answer #6 · answered by Croeso 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
thought that was a sting song sorry
2006-08-17 21:16:33 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
a poem is a sorce through which we can express our feelings.
2006-08-15 00:31:49 · answer #8 · answered by sparkly star 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
U purdy much nailed it there.
2006-08-15 00:32:50 · answer #9 · answered by twoBITrox 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
snap out of it, that's what it was
2006-08-17 00:16:16 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋