Sunday, April 1, 2018

National Poetry Month 2018: What I Have to Offer (Day 1)




Hello friends! Welcome back to the blog. I have posted about three and a half times since last April, which is a testament to A. How busy I've been and B. How important it is to blog during other times of the year.

Once again, I will be posting a poem a day for the month of April. Some of them will be written during this month and some of them will be older, but I promise that (unless you have access to my secret poetry blog) you haven't seen them before.

Enjoy

What I Have to Offer
Written October 16, 2017

Here is what I give to you,
to all of you, the least of you,
to the most deserving but also
those who want it gone.
I will give it for all and forever.
The gift goes on and on.

It is soft like mothers’ whispers,
if you are battered by sound.
It gently beats, never retreats,
it is safe to speak around.

But it is also for the others
who need to hear it thunder,
who need to feel the shake of life
to wake them from the dead of night,
to throttle fear into disarray,
this is what I give away.

I cannot give it otherwise,
it can only laugh or cry,
it is not stable, it does not merit
apathy, if you can bear it.

And I cannot keep it to myself,
or to only one of you, the least of you,
I cannot only give to the best of you,
I can only give it to completion,
without fullness there is no creation,
it simply will cease to be.

I don’t care if you don’t want it.
It’s already out of my hands.
I have to give it away, it’s just
who I am.


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