I met a man today....whom opened my eyes.
To a side of humans that I did not know was there inside.
I only chatted with him for an hour...this and that we shared.
He wanted to know if I was interested in some quite moments we could share.
And I admit I was interested, we chatted some more.
He tells me in a way that he has cancer and that not much time does he have in store.
He's only looking for a companion.
Someone to hold along the way, then depart when it gets hazy and the disease takes him away.
I cry......
I cry for that emptiness that must be in his heart.
To feel the need to destroy what is left upon his heart.
I cry all the moments that he will surely miss,
For in his quest to find the moment he is missing out on life's most precious gifts.
Although I was hesitate of this stranger and his plight.
I found myself wondering what if anything can I bring him to help him arise.
And finally after he explains many different ways of view,
I know really there is nothing that I could honesty do.
Only accept his choice as he has choose, and be his friend when I can and allow him his dignity and never judge his different views.
As we close our conversation,
I tell him he will be in my prayers,
And he said by darling,
Never linger there.
I have made peace with myself and my family in this.
However the man above is not one on my list.
And again I found myself crying......
For the lost and troubled soul.
Whom fate has taken more then just life he has taken a father, a son & so much left untold.
It is with this now that I lay my head to rest,
And wonder what will my world come to in this life or the next.
This was a real & true story that I just had happen not 5 mins before I wrote this poem......this came from the very deepest part of my heart.....read well my friends.....12/9/03 9:20 PM
