So the purpose of this blog is to be a space to practice creativity. I am currently using it as a place to record a single, unedited poem for each day in 2019. While I attempt to write everyday, I may not actually post daily. Instead, I will post poems as they are completed, but one for everyday of the year. Not sure I can make it, but we'll see. It's fun to try regardless :)

Tuesday, December 24, 2019

Poem: December 24, 2019

Bearing Gifts

To choose not to have a child
because you fear the future is
to misunderstand what it means
to be human. To have a child

is an act of hope, the most
humanly vulnerable act of hope.

We cannot give the world to
a child. The world is the world.

We give our child to the world,
our golden gift, the only gift
we have to give, and hope and
hope it is enough.

What is our alternative?
No bright star? An empty house?



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