The giver (for Berdis) Related Poem Content Details
If the hope of givingis to love the living,the giver risks madnessin the act of giving.Some such lesson I seemed to seein the faces that surrounded me.Needy and blind, unhopeful, unlifted,what gift would give them the gift to be gifted?The giver is no less adriftthan those who are clamouring for the gift.If they cannot claim…