My Soul's Connections

Some people visit our lives for a while

Just passing by with a casual smile

Maybe a nod of their head or a chat

Just an encounter and no more than that

A few words together whilst waiting in queues

Discussing the weather or some recent news

A gesture, a kindness but nothing that lasts

A split second contact a moment soon past.

But others we meet in quite similar ways

Turn up in our lives and then sit down and stay

And most imperceptibly one day we feel

The friendship has grown, taken root, become real

These casual acquaintances somehow connect

with our soul in a way that we did not expect

For our souls speak a language beyond conscious speech

and communicate often beyond cognitive reach.

And I'd like to thank those whose souls speak with mine
in a language of love, a voice almost divine

We can try to define it, in words to express

But spoken words spoil it, make it smaller and less

I have learned as I've gone along simply to rest

With my soul's choice of loved ones, for then I am blessed

For I love you with all that I am and more yet

For my soul celebrated the day that we met.

Karen Holmes
14^th December 2014