Gift

I’ve known you with so many faces
I meet you every where I go
I’m standing at the traffic circle, waiting for a cue,
You’ve got a welcoming sense of warmth in you.

Pristine, pure, loving and calm
You seem to have lived through a storm
Connected both inside and out
Making the world a better place, no doubt.

Your hugs are puddles of joy
Make me feel like a teenage boy
Hair flowing like an ocean’s tide
You show up in my life again, only to go back and hide.

But, for humans, complication
is our cup of tea
I went looking for answers for us
Came back with more questions for me.

I am poor, I am thirsty
Searching for the water of love
Quenching it for short moments
Looking for the rain from above.

​There’s the desire for freedom on one side
The other’s got love and thirst
I don’t know what I want
I ask only for the gift of freedom
Tied, with love, in a wrap of trust.