The Ultimate Gift

We grew up with the urge

to plant

and grow

and reap what we have sown.

Guided always by maternal words,

loving advice planted

to strive for the sky

yet set with limits of reality.

“You can do anything if you put your mind to it.”

“You could have done it better.”

“If it’s worth doing, do it well.”

“You’ll have to settle for that.”

“Where’s the Griffin in you.”

“What do you want? The sun with the moon around it?”

Now, you have arrived.

your home

a cornucopia

overflowing.

So Mon Frere,

what could I give you

that in life you don’t already have?

maybe the sun with the moon around it?

by dc HILL

© September 15, 1993