Life Possibilities ...in first person

I have a lot of love to give

on so many different planes.

Some people find that offensive

and ask that I not cross that line.

I am lots of things to others,

wife,friend, mother,sister,lover

daughter,mentor,antagonist and at times, brother.

I wonder if people see me

as I really am or

as they want me to be.

Love and compassion is what I'm all about

I give it freely, but expect it in return.

I ask a lot from friends and lovers

they sometimes cannot live up to

my ideal.

I look for the best in people,

I hope for the same in return.

I know they are not all perfect,

I hurt for the pain they have lived through

and I think I can take it away

through my own

sense of love.

I am naive...

I treasure every good thing each

relationship in my life brings me, each

friend, each passerby.

I live as though each person I meet

will somehow enrich my spirit

in ways I as yet do not know.

I do not judge other

human beings,

for it is not my job.

I find that my consciousness

will meet another soul

at some time or another that

it recognizes or remembers from another time

or another plane and we spend

some time together again

here in this life, happy that we have met

and shared the same space for a little while.

I hope that I can always be remembered

as someone who

lived in the shadow of the elements

and love.

That the world did not stop to listen to me,

but I stopped to listen to the world.

That I was a sustainer of life,

a nurturer of spirits

and a kindred soul

to many a kind-hearted person.

An Essay of Things Learned Along the Way by Riley James