The Arrow and The Song

earned this poem in grade school.  So amazing that up until now I still remember it and the lesson one gets from it.  The arrow represents hurtful words, while the song are praises/compliments we speak towards other people.  This poem intends to teach us that we must discern carefully what comes out from our mouth lest we risk hurting other people’s feelings.  Keep in mind that words, once spoken whether you mean it or not, may never be unspoken and forgotten.

I shot an arrow into the air,

It fell to earth, I knew not where;

For, so swiftly it flew, the sight

Could not follow it in its flight.

I breathed a song into the air

It fell to earth, I knew not where;

For who has sight so keen and strong,

That it can follow the flight of song?

Long, long afterward, in an oak

I found the arrow still unbroke;

And the song, from beginning to end,

I found again in the heart of a friend.

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