COUSIN
I have not been here very long
a few trips back to my land
maybe twice or so,
and I did not know her very much.
She seemed like a nice person
someone you could trust...
I did exactly that-- trust--
with all my heart and soul.
I opened up my world,
and opened up the path to my secret playground--
and for a while we played together, laughed and cried...
I felt a connection with her
I had not felt with another before.
In my eyes she was the most wonderful creature I had ever met
truthful and kind.
I thought I had found my best friend,
but best friends we really were not...
Her soul and heart were somewhere else,
but I believed in her friendship.
I did not know that as I was turning away
she was changing her "DISFRAZ."
We are of the same blood, or are we really?
They say she is just like me, but she really is not,
for I am warm hearted, kind, forgiving, fair, true to my friendships.
I make no preferences between the poor and the rich--
for if you are poor and uneducated you can still hold my hand,
and I wear no "DISFRAZ."
I am who I am, and no cover hides me,
I am not angry nor am I sad,
I do not hate you or dispise you (God lives inside of me),
I am just a person with feelings and emotions...
I am a part of your family--
you are the daughter of an uncle I admire and love very much,
and long before you existed,
your father and I shared a connection that has always been true--
so how can I hate you?
You are a part of him.
You see, dear:
life is a funny journey we travel,
we live day by day, hoping to make the right choices,
and sometimes we do, and sometimes we don't!
But when we have the chance to make the right choice
and we let it go, because it wasn't good enough--
we really have lost!
Too many times we let a good friendship pass us by--
stubborness, pride, anger
and perhaps thinking we're missing out on something better--
takes us away from reality...
I'd rather hold one lilly on my hand
than a thorny rose piercing me!
"Disfraz"-- a halloween custom