Sylvia Welsh

I come across 'The Prophet' by chance [PAN books] in a bookshop and I was enchanted. In Germany I had the wonderful surprise invitation by a group, to listen to a reading of 'The Prophet' on a mountain top by a mystic. It was late in the evening and the sun was setting in the valleys beneath us in a golden hue. It was sheer magic as the glorious voice of the reader carried into the heavenly sky above us. The words had touched my inner self. The mountain was in my homeland and I felt the earth within me and me with the earth as I layed on the ground listening and I shed tears and wept all through the reading. Again by chance, my husband and I visited the State Library Buildig in Sydney and there to our amazement was an exhibition of Kahilil Gibran. When my dear husband past away last year and at the church service amongst others speakers, I got up and read the lines of the poem, 'We would ask now of Death' as a goodby to my Love on his souls journey. Thank You Kahlil Gibran