Some people enter stage left,
and they never leave.
Relationships may change,
distance may challenge,
but always a presence.
These are the people
that see us, get us.
They walk back our bs.
They talk back when
we need a reminder
of whom we are –
who we are to be/come.
They held us.
When the world
sucked us in and ejected
us broken and afraid.
They are the people
who have the gift
of rebuilding wholeness.
They are the voice
yelling yes while the choir
keeps chanting no.
They create worlds without limits,
centered on the call
of transformation,
of hope.
Their names will never
adorn a monument.
No awards will be
delivered bearing their name.
None-the-less,
they are the ones who
made the impossible, possible.
When they finally depart,
as all humans inevitably must
the world may not
remember their name,
but their humble gifts of love
have changed everything.
Kimi Floyd Reisch, 2021
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