Reasons

They tell me everything happens for a reason 

and I don't know if that's True. 

but I do know that everything that happens 

profoundly affects Us, 

that the people who touch our lives 

that have such a Magical gift 

are usually the people who are in that life most briefly 

a single chance to change the course of history 

to rewrite a story--for better or worse 

and we owe it to those People who 

Form our beings at the core, 

who guide us, 

or make us Think 

we Owe them our lives 

and thus we are all charged: 

to touch some Small life, 

in some Small way. 

a whisper in the Darkness 

or a shout through turmoil. 

that maybe, just Maybe 

they can know 

what we have had the Fortune to know 

and we see that it Is 

for a Reason 

very far off and indefinite 

and yet so close and defined 

that maybe, just Maybe 

we can come to Know ourselves