For Giving, Forgiving

7/23/2009
7:45 AM

*the blue typing are the things I've added in after the poem. (Note the u.s. not capitalized & the alternation between forgiving and for giving.) Try reading with and without the add-ins.

For Giving, Forgiving:

I want to thank God for letting me live another day
For opening my eyelids so I can declare to be awake
For living in the united states so I can claim to be somewhat free
For giving me the drive, the desire to be all that I want to be
(all that I CAN be, like the navy)
For giving his sons life, to purge me of my sins
Forgiving me each time I sin over and over again
For GIVING me each time to I use to sin over and over again
After all, we're only human.
For giving me a functioning mind to learn from my mistakes
For two arms to welcome love, and two cheeks to turn to hate
(For giving me a heart fragile enough to break
For giving me endurance, so all this, I can take)
For giving me a voice, to praise His Holy Name
For giving me two hands, forgiving what they do to gain
For giving me this pen this paper, for the inspiration in my thoughts.
For giving me the creativity to say: We think what we are, but we are what we're not.
...(we're really taught)...

-Amen-


xOxO
Amber M.