The Journey with Jesus: Poems and Prayers
Selected by Dan Clendenin
Czeslaw Milosz (1911–2004)
Gift
A day so happy.
Fog lifted early. I worked in the garden.
Hummingbirds were stopping over the honeysuckle flowers.
There was no thing on earth I wanted to possess.
I knew no one worth my envying him.
Whatever evil I had suffered, I forgot.
To think that once I was the same man did not embarrass me.
In my body I felt no pain.
When straightening up, I saw blue sea and sails.
Milosz won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980.