The Swan and The Prince

It's a story about the swan in lake. He's wandering around the water until a Prince Charming would find him and break the cursed upon his solitude lake.

He's so tired today. Keep on working for the sake of giving his best for himself. What he need now is give himself and share his today story at the lake to someone that he care about, the Prince Charming. Or he prefer to be shared his prince story. Lean on his side, after a pret-a-porter dinner (or cook for him), listen to his deep voice. But, where is he? Good question. Because he's no man, man's. Ironic...

He met the Prince a while ago. Spent a night with him, then another night. The swan has been waiting for that night to come again, but then the swan has to return to his faith and flew to the lake. Each night he pray for the prince, pray for another chance to be by the Prince side.

The swan left the prince for one full moon, to fulfil his destiny at the lake. A question remain in the Swan's heart. Will the prince wait for him? Will they meant to be together? Wíll this Prince is the one who break the curse upon the Swan?

If only he'd be sure of what the Prince Charming felt to him. The swan has suffer so many time, and the swan think that he can't bear for any misery. Though then he realize, to love is to suffer and not to love is to suffer, as the angel of the night told him once.

Well, meanwhile the swan will keep waiting for the moon to shine and turn him into human again.

Here is a story from 'here' and there..

A conversation between friend:
"What would you do, after facing the stressed day work and you found the frown face of your signifcant other and he dumped you to sleep outside in the weather like this?"
He replied, "then I will sleep there, alone."
"And how if this condition kept continuing for a week? months?"
He smiled and answer as facing his commitment, "I will patiently say to him I love you and faithfully I am sure he would not do that."

Poet Archibald MacLeish says that "love, like light, grows dearer towards the dark." This is what he calls the "late, last wisdom of the afternoon." The same is true of our love for one another; it can indeed grow dearer as we age.

I have seen it myself in two other elderly friends.Commited for over 30 years, they are still very much in love. One is dying of brain cancer; the other is dying of Parkinson's disease. Few years ago I remember, back in Sydney, I saw Jean lean over Paul's bed, kiss him, and whisper, "I love you." Jean replied, "You're beautiful."I thought of couples who have given up on their commitment, who are unwilling to endure through better or worse, sickness or health, poverty or wealth, and I am saddened for them.

They will miss the kind of love my friends here and there enjoy in their latter years.I have watched Jean and Paul over the years, and I know that deep faith in God, lifelong commitment, loyalty, and self-denying love are the dominant themes of their commitment. They have taught me that true love never gives up, it "never fails." Theirs is the "late, last wisdom of the afternoon," and it will continue to the end. May we express that same unfailing love to those who love us.


Inspired from my beloved friend, Bapa Paul Saliba
Originally quoted from FW, IMS mailing list, with some additional changes.