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Given To by Ruth Bebermeyer

Given To by Ruth Bebermeyer

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This poem is an excerpt from the book Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life by Marshall B. Rosenberg.

I never feel more given to
than when you take from me –
when you understand the joy I feel
giving to you.

And you know my giving isn’t done
to put you in my debt,
but because I want to live the love
I feel for you.

To receive with grace
may be the greatest giving.
There’s no way I can separate
the two.

When you give to me,
I give you my receiving.
When you take from me, I feel so
given to.

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