Challenge
Challenge of the Month II
The Gift. Write the story of a gift, passed from one hand to another. Perhaps it is a heart-warming gesture of kindness and goodwill. Or perhaps it is something more foreboding, more sinister. Perhaps it is a simple, material object. Or perhaps it is something more amorphous, more esoteric. Whatever it is, it must be a gift. Fiction or non-fiction, poetry or Prose.
A Gift From Above
gifts are given graciously from another
yet mine was dressed in a mask and undiscovered
until I became wise to realize my life is a gift like no other
some days I forget and want to end it without suffer
hours on end, blind to the fact that I have so much to live for
there’s gifts all around me, never have I looked at it like this before
there’s pros and cons to every precious life that is gifted
the gift I was handed is bonded with pain and sadness within
it also instilled lessons learned and a beautiful family again
so I kindly re-gift without any tears, sorrows, or sins
to the world standing with me, forever until the end
-h.b. woods