[Critique Group 2] Emailing: The Gift For next Thursday's 11-19-20 critique session-Brad

[James]

The Gift
C By Brad Corallo
Word count 137

Joyfully I shared with her
 the gift of understanding.
In the passage of time,
 she began to fret and worry,
fearing breakage, theft and loss.
She came an asked me.
"What is this burden you have bound me too?"

"You have bound yourself.
You are grasping your own wheel of fire,
you have only to loosen your hold
to be free of the pain." 

"I don't understand!" 

"Then either the gift has failed you or
you have failed the gift. 
Which, in the evolution of wisdom is truly more dire? 
Better perhaps had you cast it away or
Passed it on to one struggling with a tortured mind. 
The gift was aligned and freely given.
But you have twisted it,
into the instrument of your own obsession
ultimately, obscuring all understanding!" 

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