The gift

The gift

Words so long unsaid

slip from their wrappings.

When they do, we learn

the when, more than the what,

lifts us off our feet.

Touch too long unfelt,

when it comes, at last,

in dulce jubilo,

gives us our name and sets us

safely back on earth.

(c) Copyright 2000. The Christian Science Publishing Society

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