THE GIFT

“For you,” she said

offering up her most prized

possession (herself) willingly

genuinely generous

In wonder and awe

her glorious gift was accepted

but time debrides, 

wonder wears,

awe erodes, 

glory gives over to want 

and need and 

greed

 

Like kudzu vine, they overcame her

overreaching, encroaching, choking

Virginia creepers, mile-a-minute

invasive, overrunning, overriding

grasping, greeding, 

never once conceding

(much less ruing) 

symbiosis might be their undoing