Give-Away Song by Gwen Westerman - Poems | Academy of American Poets

This is my give-away— / not because I don’t want

Give-Away Song Add to anthology × Load audio player Gwen Westerman This is my give-away— not because I don’t want it anymore, not because it’s out of style or broken or useless since it lost its lid or one of its buttons, not because I don’t understand the “value” of things. This is my give-away— because I have enough to share with you because I have been given so much health love happiness pain sorrow fear to share from the heart in a world where words can be meaningless when they come only from the head. This is my give-way— to touch what is good in you with words your heart can hear l

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