The Giver by Lois Lowry
Hello, my name is Jonas, and I have a story to tell you,
My story is of deceit and betrayal, such I could never believe was true.
The world I live in is perfect, or so I thought,
My father takes care of babies, and to our house a baby was brought.
In my community, when we turn twelve, we are assigned a job for life,
When the jobs were given out, my name was not called, which I thought would start strife.
Then I found out my job was unique, it was only assigned to one,
I was to be the new receiver, a job that was not much fun.
In my world there are no feelings, we feel no hurt or pain,
Yet one of us holds memories of the past, memories of disdain.
The one that holds the memories, is who I take training from,
His name is “the Giver” and as he asks, forth I shall come.
Forth to receive the memories, memories of the past,
Joy, angst, love, death, all I see creates an impact that will last.
In our community it is said that babies who are too small, or people who are too old,
Are “released” or sent away, that is what we are told.
Nobody sees what happens, but the people who release them, we do not know that these are all lies,
They are not just sent away, there is a truth, which I despise.
Until I saw a memory of war, I did not know what death was,
I did not believe that people died, and this is all because,
Nobody told me the truth, so I asked for a release to be shown to me,
That was when I realized, my father was not who he was said to be.
The baby that I saw, by my father he was killed,
There I saw that the gap between life and death was filled.
I could not believe my eyes, he really killed it?
It was all so very shocking, and the baby did not even throw a fit!
Then I thought about back home, was it true that my father would too kill this baby?
I had a plan that might work; it could work, just maybe.
I talked to the Giver; I told him that the world should know that the people are actually killed,
The world needed to know the truth, and to do that I willed.
The second I left the community, my memories would be free
They would be wandering around, for everyone to see.
And so I left, and I took the baby with me,
Hoping that this would help to uncover the truth, I hoped the truth would soon be free.
~Narrative poem written for a school project? Basically a summary of the book, The Giver
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