This year things changed.
I changed,
change or die.
Some choice,
almost got it wrong.
One welcoming voice.
Kind and strong.
Pebbles start avalanches.
Smiles and hugs mend sad hearts.

This week, some special friends,
said "I love you."
A baby, a girl, women, men.
****, getting insecure again,
I don't deserve this love.
But they beat my barriers down.
A smile, love, a human touch,
a thing that means so much.

So I try not to hide,
or turn dead inside.
Make my heart and my eyes a guide,
to the Angels and aliens in the skies.

Of humanity.

They mean so much to me.
And those left from before,
I just feel for all the more.
So happy now, sitting here.
But I can feel looming  fear.
But they will conquer it for me,
with a smile.