Soul Friends

I always try to be grateful for the people I have in my life. It recently occurred to me that I have finally come to a place where I'm not questioning who my friends are, along with being confident I'm just as equally important to them. This poem is about those people; the ones I can be completely vulnerable and transparent with and not fear judgement or rejection. For the sake of clarification, family is included in this as well. 

Soul Friends

You can know a lot of people

And get along with just about everyone

But how many of them really see you

How many of them really know?

I’d say I’m pretty good at staying true to myself

I don’t try to pretend to be someone I’m not

Yet I can count them number of people on both hands

Who through the years, have come to know me inside out

With them, I can share my soul

Call it insecurity if you’d like

Or just being afraid

But I’ve realized that I have a lot of layers that take time to peel back

And a lot of history

Not all can understand that

Not all can accept all of me

But the ones who do

I can tell my deepest feelings and secrets to

Be quirky and sometimes do stupid things

The ones, whom when it’s needed,  can look me in the eye and say

“stop, this isn't you!"

We don’t have to talk all the time or be inseparable 

We can go through a lot of changes

Some good, others not so much

And find that we still care for each other

No matter what

When I see a rarity I know it

These blessings in my life overflow

I’m no longer looking but cherishing

Those have left deep footprints in my life

And in my heart, where it counts

I won’t worry about tomorrow

Or who’ll still be around years from now

God gave me you for a reason

And that reason I’m seeing now