Giving is a Gift

 Giving is a Gift

I move my pen at the insistence of my heart to write words that offer you favor.

You read my gift, my gift of words, I give you the gift of my labor.

You, the reader, give me a gift, too, a gift that is unstinting.

For you, the reader, give me, the writer, the awesome gift of giving.

Without your gift, my words would surely languish on the page,

A page that sits in a box somewhere until it yellows with age.

So I thank you for reading my words, for bringing them to light,

For you doing so gives us both a gift, for me one quite bright.