this one is for the people who are special to us all. not about anyone in particular...just the ones who have been in our lives at one time or another. the ones who have touched us all and made us better for it.the ones who came into our lives and directed us with gentle hands and hearts, talked and listened, loved and chastised us, gave us a sense of family and belonging and unconditional understanding. all those people who came to us with the love and trust of a child....never second guessing us for a second but instead, holding us up and believeing in us no matter what. it may have been a child, a mother, a brother, father, sister....whoever. it could have been someone who was no relation at all but who was just as close as any relation could have been. a best friend, a lover, someone who you really didn't even know. yes, it could have been a total stranger who just happened along at the right time....when you needed someone most. when you needed someone to just recognize that you were alive and that you needed a kind word or a smile...and then gave it to you without asking for anything in return. all those people that left a longing or a full-blown ache in your heart when they left. the ones who made you cry in their absence wishing you could have left with them....that they never had gone..... but then smile just by thinking of them. we try so hard not to think about these people, don't we? we try so hard to hide from the pain but isn't that what makes us human? the ability to think AND feel? we loved and lost and that hurts but wouldn't it have all been meaningless without the ones we can't see?
