For All You Have Given Me

If I am the love

Your life has never known

I thank you

For letting it be shown

To experience and understand

To learn a lesson

Without it being planned



For without you

I wouldn’t believe

In my true value

And all I can achieve



You have given me

More than love

You have given me

More than light

You have given me

The strength of sight

The will to live

The desire to maintain

In this world of pain



To walk through the rain

And hold my head high

To never give up

If I cry

My tears will dry

So there’s no reason

To want to die

Because I’m still here

Continue my life

Not give into my fears



Once where it was dark

I now see light

As it shines

You have taught me

That brightness was always mine

Which is something

I didn’t know

I only saw darkness

But to me you have shown

How to appreciate

What I didn’t understand

Taught me

What was out of reach

Was always in my hands



I didn’t need to search to find

Because on the darkest of days

You appeared before my eyes



The answer to my life’s problems

The victory to my defeats

The key to the cage

That confined me

In a world which I was lost

You gave me strength

So I stood up and fought

For what in life

Is so hard to find



The answer to my prayers

The illusions in my mind

I found true in you

Showing me the impossible

Can come true



For all you have given me

I will always love you

Author's Notes/Comments: 

This poem was written in 2000. I still remember I was at work, at the cash register printing out the receipt paper so I can write down my thoughts, because I forgot my journal at home.

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Girl you gonna make me cry this is beautiful.

Mina