Maybe There's No Way That I Can Thank You

December 16, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Saying Thank You.

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A name and thank-you poem about the inadequacy of art to express the fullness of one’s gratitude:

Maybe there’s no way that I can thank you.

I would, however, certainly like to try.

Caring needs no cause or reason why.

Hardwired to happiness, it sustains you.

And so there is no way to recompense you

Equal to the joy that meets the eye.

Let this be, then, merely a reply,

A bit of fancy that I hope might please you.

Nor can the song that sings within my heart

Descend upon the stage of my desire,

Prepared to turn my feelings into grace.

Out of thwarted need, I turn to art,

Like settling for the painting of a fire,

Less than a true rendering would require,

Yet what I would now tender in its place.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Saying Thank You

12/16: Maybe There’s No Way That I Can Thank You