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- When Giving Is All We Have
- by Alberto Ríos
- One river gives
- Its journey to the next.
- We give because someone gave to us.
- We give because nobody gave to us.
- We give because giving has changed us.
- We give because giving could have changed us.
- We have been better for it,
- We have been wounded by it—
- Giving has many faces: It is loud and quiet,
- Big, though small, diamond in wood-nails.
- Its story is old, the plot worn and the pages too,
- But we read this book, anyway, over and again:
- Giving is, first and every time, hand to hand,
- Mine to yours, yours to mine.
- You gave me blue and I gave you yellow.
- Together we are simple green. You gave me
- What you did not have, and I gave you
- What I had to give—together, we made
- Something greater from the difference.
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