The joy of giving

Our prompt for the day is 'to write a poem of gifts and joy' and is inspired by one of Rachel McKibben's posts on Twitter.

I am going to take the prompt a step further and challenge myself to write about the joy of giving, but not in the common sense of the phrase. I'm quite inspired by McKibben's post too...

The joy of giving

Today, 

I gave away a smile

and another tired face brightened

I let go of my own pain

in a warm cup of tea

as a quiet

gift to myself

I hummed

a melody in my heart

to chase away

the clouds