Everyone's Gift

It is everyone’s gift to be hurt
To be wounded & controlled by a love that marks your life.

To be sacrificed for some poor soul

To die on someone’s action or inaction

To be in stasis between exhale + inhale

To love lips that suggest utterances

that you will live again

through them, for them and because of them.

For how can you feel alive,

if she has not bade you to “live!” ?