Since You've Been Gone

No Soul is Replaceable

A soul is itself no matter where it is

How many people think of a soul in a person

We think of a person and their actions

Yet as a soul

We think of them in a different light

Like what they are meant to do or be

What they think

Or act like or feel

When we lose someone we love

We think of everything they may have spoken to us and it magnifies in strength now that they are gone

We think of how they loved strawberry ice cream on a waffle cone

How they loved watching "I Love Lucy" reruns over and over again

We remember that they loved our blue sweater

And they cleaned their car once a week

We remember, and remember

We smile and cry

We want to see them and we can not replace them

We can only love them

And give their love the honor of living in us and thanking them for giving to us, them

For sharing themselves

As we share ourselves with our children

With our friends

With our families

With our coworkers

If we could think of those alive in the same appreciation as those that have passed?

Imagine how much appreciation that would be around

How little judgment is involved in our noticing the wonderful things they do

Rather than everything they do wrong

You see, we can actually see what we want to see

Both sides are always here, in front of us

Look at every person you see today in that way

Oh, they like their toast a little burnt with lots of butter

They always go for a walk at nine

They wave everytime they leave their driveways

And they always ask me how I am

No soul is replaceable

We each are a unique stamp that someone can be like

But never exactly

Nothing is exact

It is simply love

Nothing is perfect

It is just love

We are not bought, nor sold

We are simply love trying to know it

To live it and to be it

And when we recognize love and share it

Then we are souled

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