Is The Gift Of Life Truly A Gift?
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Is The Gift Of Life Truly A Gift?

A poem about the gift of life and how overwhelming it can be.

Fieldiana
Dec 09, 2019
Ohio University
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Is The Gift Of Life Truly A Gift?
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According to Merriam Webster dictionary, a gift is " something voluntarily transferred by one person to another without compensation. Gifts, by nature, have no connotation; you can receive a good gift or bad gift. If you are reading this, you were given the gift of life. Is the gift of life something you were blessed with, or something you were cursed with?

I was given a gift

The gift of birth

A gift that I am proud of

I was given a gift


That gift is something I don't take for granted

That gift is something I cherish

And yet this gift is hard

This gift confuses me


As I sit here I ponder on this gift

I don't know what to do with this gift

I take it one step at a time

I take it one day at a time


Suddenly the gift turns its back on me

The gift is being used to tear me down

And suddenly I'm drowning

And I don't know how to swim


But then the gift pulls me out

And I am able to breathe

So I go back to my routine

And I take one day at a time


And then I start drowning again

This vicious cycle needs to end

It needs to stop

But I'm not sure how


This time the gift didn't help

This time the gift didn't save me

No matter how many times I begged

No matter how many time I pleaded


I drowned

I sank

I floated to the bottom

And I stayed there

The gift of life is universal yet variable. I have no come to fancy this gift in my lifetime, yet.

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