No Exchanges
By Batsheva 12/30/09
With various talents and gifts
We each have been endowed
Sorry you can't exchange them
It simply isn't allowed
Some folks get the gift of art
And create great masterpieces
Others the gift of medicine
To treat and cure diseases
Some people have a talent for sales
Selling freezers to Eskimos
While others couldn't sell a shovel
'Midst the deepest winter snows
Let's not forget the techies
Of the future, they're the shapers
Without them, I'd be writing this
With pencil on note papers
Some have a head for business
And become the financiers
While others write bestsellers
And end up as millionaires
And oh, the gift of music!
Which all appreciate
To sing or play like angels
There's a talent truly great
There are giant geniuses
Solving problems of the ages
Wouldn't it be sweet to be
As wise as those great sages?
There are so many gifts out there
I've listed just a few
Yet we don't get to pick and choose
A sad fact but it's true
Still we all should be grateful
For the Giver knows the score
And to look a gift horse in the mouth
Is etiquette quite poor
But I can't help but wonder
Would it have been such a crime
If I'd been given something other
Than this silly gift of rhyme?
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As you know, talents usually require education to bloom. And through life we discover talent we didn't know we had. Or others discover it for us. You have a talent for cooking that I don't think has been nurtured. You are also a natural teacher. When people look at their interests they will often find their hidden talents.
ReplyDeleteExcellent. You have talents, not everyone can teach and write rhymes.
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