# Soul Mates

Author: ShingetsuMoon
Tags: Emotion, Human, Poem, Poetry, Soul mate

#10 of National Poetry Writing Month

Poem #10 for National Poetry Month. Pretty much what the title says.

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When you hear the word  
soul mate most people think  
of the person they were meant  
to be with. The one they are   
supposed to marry and grow  
old with. Their other half.  
Their lover. The one person   
in life who gets them and   
completes them.

Everyone gets so caught up in soul   
mates only being about romance   
when in reality they are meant  
to be so much more.

I saw someone say once that  
soul mates are about so much  
more then love or marriage.

A soul mate can be all of those  
things, but they can also be a friend.  
An acquaintance. A person who comes  
into our life but doesn't necessarily stay  
in it forever.

They said that a soul mate is someone  
who teaches you something in such  
a way that your life is better because of it.  
They teach you something that changes   
you, alters you so much that you cannot  
go back to who you were before.

And if they stay then you're life is so  
much better because of their presence  
but if they do not then they are never   
forgotten. Their impact on your life  
remains with you until the day you die  
and you cannot think of who you have  
become without thinking of the impact  
that they had in getting you there.

They said that you can have more then  
one soul mate. You can have a person  
who is just and only a friend as  
a soul mate and still have someone to   
love and grow old with because both  
of them have taught you in different ways.

I don't know if I'll ever meet  
that romantic soul mate. That person I  
love with all my heart and grow older   
with side by side, but I do know that I   
have met you now and you have been  
a friend unlike any other.

You are my best friend, my sister, my soul  
mate. Because out of all the lessons   
you have taught me there is one that   
has left me forever changed. A lesson   
that I will never forget.

More so than all other things  
you taught me how to live again.

Source: https://sofurry.com/s/0mvkEbvn
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