PLEASE HELPLines 20 and 21 suggest that the speaker —
Some gifts are not given: you
10 are delivered to them,
bound by chains of nerves and genes
stronger than iron or steel, although
unseen. You have painted every day
for as long as I can remember
15 and will be painting still
when you read this, some cold
and distant December when the child
is old and the trees no longer silver
but black fingers scratching a grey sky.

20 And you never know why (I was lying
before when I said I knew).
You never now the force that drives you wild
to paint that sky, that bird flying,
and is never satisfied today
25 but maybe tomorrow
when the sky is a surreal sea
in which you drown . . .

A) wants to be honest about how little he understands the creative impulse
B) does not want to mislead his daughter into believing that she has special talent
C) is now willing to risk hurting his daughter’s self-esteem by telling her the truth about her work
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D) wants to admit his confusion about the sometimes-stifling life choices that creative people make