The Gift of Life

The gift of life has ten thousand million faces.

The gift of life is given in all sorts of different places–

In the handrail we grab before we fall,

To both young and old in the hospital,

At the intersections in the midst of the street,

At the end of the budget where there's just enough to eat,

In storms that veer away from the peak that you climbed.

The gift of life's given more than one time.

Birth is just the start of it.

Birth is just the least of it.