THE HUMAN GIFT

God gave me a gift when He created you.
God gave me the pleasure of being around you.
I am very lucky that God chose me to be a witness
To His finest creation ~ you.
How often times by chance does a person get
the opportunity to know a great and loving soul.
I was given that chance by God,
And I am the lucky one.
Nothing in this world is pre-determined,
Each of us is given the chance to appreciate
another member of the human race,
should we recognize it.
God gave me such a chance.He gave me you.
And it is only now, as age reckons the mind
to the long glimpse of my seasons of existance
that I understand, at last, what was fully mine.
A chance, a briefness, a breath one can only
appreciate when it is gone; to experience the
making of a life.
It was your life I experienced.
It was your making I was allowed to view.
It was the chance I was given.
God did that for me.