The Gift

The gift was promised, needed, awaited by some; wanted, longed for, improbable solution appropriate, powerful to solve, effective to emancipate, extricate, invigorate, rekindle and renovate, restore, exhilarate, expiate, propitiate, purify, cleanse:
receiving was hard for the proud, the determined mutineers abhorrent of any authority beyond themselves, the arrogant, wanting the ways they personally like, the lovers of their own decisions, self-ruled …but those who received the gift were amazed that any would not see its wonder and refuse, nor investigate honestly, and abuse ignorantly, without even ‘looking the gift horse in the mouth’.

[IP: prose-poetry re a/the gift]