The Wonder of a Gift

12/18/96



I had a gift all picked out before we got involved in the Solstice escapade


I know you would have liked it for it screamed "you " all over it


And I even wrote a lovely verse to go with


The wonderful black and tan pouch, and I was going to have


It customized with our initials, all intertwined


So you would always remember in the event we separated





And then you handed me a treasured piece of my childhhod as a gift...


And told me I was a gift when I protested





I was speechless ("remarkable, amazing," I can hear you now) and true





I am a gift?  I knew you raged when I died


I know we value our firiendship, but still, in the back


Of my mind, in the dark recesses, when my insecurities want


To leap out and grab me and wrestle me tothe ground,


I still feel like a tag-a-long, a burden...





Well, love...I am glad you got what you wanted
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