Everyone Needs Someone

[MIRIAM JACOB]

EVERYONE NEEDS SOMEONE

People need people
and friends need friends
And we all need love
for a full life depends

Not on vast riches
or great acclaim,
Not on success
or on worldy fame,

But just in knowing
that someone cares
And holds us close
in their thoughts and prayers

For only the knowledge
that we're understood
Makes everyday living
feel wonderfully good,

And we rob ourselves
of life's greatest need
When we "lock up our hearts"
and fail to heed

The outstretched hand
reaching to find
A kindred spirit
whose heart and mind

Are lonely and longing
to somehow share
Our joys and sorrows
and to make us aware

That life's completeness
and richness depends
On the things we share with
our loved ones and friends.



- Helen Steiner Rice