Today is Monday, December 20th, 2010; Karen's Korner #1971
Everyone Needs Someone
Everybody everywhere, no matter what his station,
Has moments of deep loneliness and quiet desperation,
For this lost and lonely feeling is inherent in mankind,
It is just the spirit speaking as God tries again to find
As opening in the wall man builds against God's touch,
For he feels so sufficient that he doesn't need God much.
So he vanely goes on struggling to find some explanation
For these distributing, lonely moods of inner isolation,
But the answer keeps eluding him, for in his finite mind,
He does not even recognize that he will never find
The reason for life's emptiness unless he learns to share
The problems and burdens that surround him everywhere;
But when his eyes are opened and he really looks at others,
He begins to see not strangers but people who are brothers.
So open up your hardened hearts and let God enter in;
He only wants to help you a new life to begin,
And every day's a good day to lose yourself in others,
And anytime's a good time to see mankind as brothers,
And this can only happen when your realize it's true
That everyone needs someone and that someone is you.
~ Helen Steiner Rice
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