**In a Poetic Mood**
This poem goes out to ONE person in my life, one person whom I have never even met face to face. He has only been in my life a short time but has already made such a huge impact. Truly it makes all the difference when you are ABLE to talk to someone and then…. they actually HEAR what you have to say. I can truly say that I have, also, one “golden” friend that hears me. The difference between these two wonderful people are one is also a teacher to me. These thoughts tonight go to the one who knows who I am even though, right now, I do not.

Patrick, you are truly one of God’s greatest gifts to this world. Thank you for being apart of mine!

~To A Friend~

You entered my life in a casual way,
And saw at a glance what I needed;
There were others who passed me or met me each day,
But never a one of them heeded.
Perhaps you were thinking of other folks more,
Or chance simply seemed to decree it;
I know there were many such chances before,
But the others-well, they didn’t see it.

You said just the thing I wished you would say,
And you made me believe that you meant it;
I held up my head in the old gallant way,
And resolved you should never repent it.
There are times when encouragement means such a lot,
And a word is enough to convey it;
There were others who could have, as easy as not-
But, just the same, they didn’t say it.

There may have been someone who could have done more
To help me along, though I doubt it;
What I needed was cheering, and always before
They had let me plod onward without it.
You helped me refashion the dream of my heart,
And made me turn eagerly to it;
There where others who might have (I question that part)-
But, after all, they didn’t do it!