Gifts: Creative Platypus

Gifts

God gives us gifts we do not want.
Beatings and persecutions,
the difficult relative;
we are acquainted with these.

It is the good things we are not
ready for, or
that come in forms we did not
want
that baffle me the most.

It is the open door that comes
ten years too late,
the friend in a form
that did not fit our scruples
or agenda,
the return for all the wasted
years
when we finally fit our sorrows;
these are the things that I
do not understand.

Every good and perfect gift
is from above, breaking
atmosphere with the fire of
the Dove.