Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet Page #4

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for Pete's sake.

Come on.

Move it, move it.

Please step away!

Go on, go on,

let's break this up!

Enough of this.

Get up.

We haven't got all day.

Sorry, sir. You're right.

That ship won't wait forever.

Mustafa, sir, food for your voyage

from all your friends here.

Come on, Mustafa.

Time to leave all your admirers.

Go with God.

We will miss you.

- Goodbye!

- Come back to us.

Goodbye!

Take care of yourself.

Stay here in

the cafe, okay?

You'll be safe until

I can find your mother.

Safe travels! Thank you, everybody!

Thank you!

Goodbye!

Goodbye!

There you are! I have

looked all over for you!

Huh? Kamila.

Oh, no, just tell me what I owe

you, and let's be done with it.

My dear lady, no, no.

Everything is fine.

You owe me nothing.

Okay.

Thank you.

I have been out of

my mind with worry.

IVlmm!

Oh, no, you don't

Not this time.

I've lost Mustafa today.

I am not losing you to a police cell!

What, what?

What do you want?

So help me,

Almitra, don't test...

IVlmm.

What is it?

Do you know what's going on?

Because I sure don't

Goodbye, Mustafa!

MANI LOOK, it'S him.

There he is!

Yay!

Mustafa!

One minute, Mustafa.

There are some details to be

attended to at headquarters.

Please. Come with me.

I had no idea.

Of course not, Halim

Very well, Sergeant.

Hey, where

are you taking him?

Please step away.

What are you doing?

The ship is this way.

Nothing to see here!

Where is he going?

Let him go!

What's going on?

Ludicrous!

I can't believe this!

I thought he was free!

No, he was free!

Almitra, you knew?

Let him go!

He's done

nothing wrong!

This is an outrage!

Out of our way.

No! Bring him back!

Please step away!

Return to your homes!

Make way.

He is an innocent man!

Almitra, no!

Ahh!

Almitral

More men over here!

Move these people!

Watch it! Careful!

There! The girl! Get her!

Leave her alone!

You swine!

HALIIVIZ Almitra.

No!

Wait!

Clear the square!

Return to your homes!

Ahh!

Clear the area!

This is your last warning!

Let me help you

disappear into the crowd.

The people won't

give you away. Quickly!

Thank you, Halim.

But I won't put you...

GRoANs)

Ahhh!

No, Sergeant.

Let me help.

People of Orphalesel

My friends, I beg you!

Please! Be calm!

But they're taking you!

They're liars!

They're evil!

Let us not be too

quick to call others evil.

"For what is evil but good tortured

By its own hunger and thirst?

"Truly when good is hungry It

seeks food even in dark caves

"And when it thirsts

It drinks even of dead waters

"You are good When you

strive to give of yourself

"Yet you are not evil When

you seek gain for yourself

"For when you strive for gain

"You are but a root that clings to

the earth And sucks at her breast

"Surely the fruit

cannot say to the root

"'Be like me, ripe and full And

ever giving of your abundance'

"For the fruit

giving is a need

"As receiving is

a need for the root

"You are good When you

are one with yourself

"Yet when you are not one with

yourself You are not evil

"A ship without a rudder May wander

aimlessly among perilous isles

"Yet not sink to the bottom

"You are good When you walk

to your goal with bold steps

"Yet you are not evil

when you go limping

"Even those who

limp do not go backward

"Pity that the stags Cannot

teach swiftness to the turtles

"But you who are

strong and swift

"See that you do not limp before

the lame Deeming it kindness

"In your longing for your

greater self Lies your goodness

"But in some of you, that longing is a

torrent Rushing with might to the sea

"Carrying the secrets of the hillsides

And the songs of the forest

"While in others,

it is a flat stream

"That loses itself

in angles and bends

"And lingers before

it reaches the shore

"In our longing for our greater

selves Lies our goodness

"And that longing

is in all of us"

So, Mustafa.

Your first day of freedom, and you

bring a riot to our doorstep.

It was your men and their billy

clubs that brought on the riot.

Order in the streets must be maintained.

Otherwise, anarchy.

I'm disappointed

to see your presence

is just as incendiary

as it was seven years ago.

Did your stay on the mountain

give you no time for reflection?

Quite a bit, thanks.

Then why do you

persist with these

treasonous acts and

rebellious speeches?

Treasonous?

I have only spoken with love.

Oh. Only love and

flowers, was it?

I believe this is yours.

"Pity the nation that

raises not its voice

"Save when it

walks in a funeral

"Boasts not

except among its ruins

"And will not

rebel until its neck

"ls laid between

the sword and the block"

"Love and flowers."

Nothing less than

a call to rebellion!

I don't see it that way.

Apparently, we disagree.

It would, indeed, be tragic

if rash words from the past

prevented you from returning

to your beloved homeland.

You mean, there's still

a chance I may go home?

A chance?

A certainty.

We are not vindictive

We are not barbarians.

Simply do this.

Sign this statement that your

writings, your teachings,

were the product of a misguided

youth and are seditious.

That you reject them now,

they are false,

and you hold

the State blameless

in its duty to preserve

the peace, etc., etc.

I can't do that.

Of course you can.

Here is your opportunity to be repentant

and for us to be magnanimous

What would I have left if I

disavowed all that I believe?

Your life, for one.

I remind you, Mustafa, the

penalty for treason is death.

Fine, have it your way.

I'll give you the night in

prison to think it over.

Guard!

Now!

IVlmm. IVlmm!

How in the world

do we get up there?

Almitra?

What are you

doing up there?

You should go.

There's only

trouble here.

Only trouble.

You... You can fly.

What?

What did you say?

You can fly away.

Like you did before.

If only I could.

But you said!

Not houses, not bodies.

Spirit.

YSS.

Spirit.

Okay. Come on.

Come out.

Fly away.

Almitra, I'm afraid

I'm going to have to stay

here and face what comes.

But they might do

bad things to you.

No! You might die!

Dear Almitra, we don't need

to be afraid of death.

"For life and death are one

"Even as the river

and the sea are one

"How would we know

the secret of death

"Unless we look for it

in the heart of life?

"The owl whose night-bound

eyes Are blind in the day

"Cannot un veil

the mystery of light

"In the depth of

your hopes and desires

"Lies your silent

knowledge of the beyond

"And like seeds dreaming beneath the

snow Your heart dreams of spring

"Trust the dreams For in them

is hidden the gate to eternity

"For what is it to die

but to stand naked

"In the wind and to

melt into the sun?

"And what is it

to cease breathing

"But to free the breath

from its restless tides

"That it may rise and expand

And seek God unencumbered?

"Only when you drink from The river

of silence shall you indeed sing

"And when you have reached

The mountaintop

"Then you shall begin to climb

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