Challenge
Challenge of the Month II
The Gift. Write the story of a gift, passed from one hand to another. Perhaps it is a heart-warming gesture of kindness and goodwill. Or perhaps it is something more foreboding, more sinister. Perhaps it is a simple, material object. Or perhaps it is something more amorphous, more esoteric. Whatever it is, it must be a gift. Fiction or non-fiction, poetry or Prose.
It flowed beyond us, through our hands
playing past our ears,
digging trenches in the lands.
Passing by us, all our years,
or sitting there like ducks,
it ebbs and passes by.
through the night it snuck,
always more than meets the eye.
From those who stood,
just further up the banks,
winding through the fields and wood,
by scenery ever flanked.
We watched it tumble past us,
with the softest sound,
the world has been its canvas,
with swirls and whirls it wound.
And like a world-wide tradition,
it visits everyone.
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