Lost Souls

 Well here we are in 2026. 

So much has happened to me over the years, physically and especially in my soul. I am still working on driving my own bus but I do it with so many more tools in my head, sometimes I drive it a little recklessly but I straighten up without serious mistakes!

I lived in a few different towns through out the years and the one thing I noticed in all these places are the people, young, middle aged, old, it is always the same look. My heart aches for these people that wonder the streets especially tonight with this freezing weather. Sometimes I try and talk to the young people that are in the parks when I walk my dog. I ask about them if they aren't high and just listen without advice for that moment. I know how hard it is to get off the drugs and alcohol but I know from my own experience that ther were thousands of times I wanted to stop, I just didn't know how to start that process. Maybe lending an ear will spark something in them to reach out, I hope so!

When I drive the downtown it is so sad to see the homeless and the addiction, the numbers are staggering!

The drugs are getting worse and seem to be crippling the people with a spinal deformation. It seems to attack the spine so as to not be able to stand up straight. 

The people walk around seemingly unaware of the people and life that is going on around them, they seem like lost souls!

I want to shout out to them and yell, come on, get it together but I know that's not real for them.

I give spare change, cloths, a kind offering of a bite to eat when I can in hopes that just for that second it sparks a thought in their mind that they want change, if anything I hope they felt that someone cared at that moment.

I don't know what the answer is? 

I was a lost soul at one time but I have family and friend and  I have regained their trust again.

I think a smile, a hello or goodmorning or acknowledgement that you see them can't hurt.

If enough of us show that we see them maybe that one person won't feel as a lost soul but will spark something within them that they do matter!

Just remember, you have always mattered, you have always been enough, youre loved.

There are no lost souls if you truly want to be found, I'll keep my eyes open for a sight of you!