-Barry Tikkanen
Have you ever looked at someone and said
I could spend my life with someone like that
Rather than could I spend my life with someone like that

Have you ever been with someone whose strength enhanced your own
or felt the joy of someone as though it were your own
or tasted the tears someone else had wept, with your soul

The soul of one flows to the other
As the heart of the other holds them together
The want of either stretches longer
As the need of both stretches farther

For someone to need you
And someone for you to need
For someone to hold you close
And someone to hold close to you
For someone who will never let you go
And someone you will never let go
Someone to be someone with
Someone
© October 1993