Such folks
12.21.07 (3:36 pm) [edit]
Some people have the ability to be honest
to actually learn from life's harsh lessons,
to accept their mistakes
even the deepest and darkest of sins,
to become naked before others
in allowing themto see what they where,
yet also,
in giving hoping to others in what they have now become.
I feel comfortable around such folks,
sages hidden,
poor,
yet I find them rich
filled with compassion and empathy
finding it difficult to condemn or look down on others
since they know their own reflection.
Perhaps one day I will find what they have,
then,
perhaps in time,
I can become a symbol of hope for others also