It all started when…
We met when we were just kids. It was January of 2012, I was a few months away from turning sixteen & a night out with friends (totally insane to think back to, my parents were away in Nevada & it was my first time ever really going out) turned into gaining an unexpected friendship I have cherished ever since. I’m usually not one to keep in contact with people I meet on a whim but it was different with him. We had a friendship unlike most - it may have not been keeping in contact everyday or even all year - but when he or I would reach out, it was like nothing had ever changed. We cared for each other, genuinely. We both had people in our lives through out the years, we both experienced the same traumas, the same heartaches and a lot of the time, even the same accomplishments - in a crazy way it was like we were the same person, the same soul, just in two different human forms. It wasn’t until recently that we decided to spark a flame we had no idea we even had together. Everyday we ask one another “Who would have ever thought?” and a part of me always wants to answer with, me.. I would have thought. You miss the signs in the midst of it all, but when you finally take a step back & look at your situation at hand, its like the signs have always been there. Time, the universe, whatever cosmic energy is out there, really took its time with us & quite frankly, we could not have come together at any better moment. We express ourselves so passionately through art - in forms only he & I can understand.
We
Are
Empaths.
I dedicate this poetry corner to him.
It is rare to come across a human being who possesses the same desires as you. Someone who holds passion for the world and possesses raw talent - things that should never go un noticed. He is even more special to me because he is someone who is not afraid to take a chance. Someone who has motivated me in ways I could never do for myself. He believes in me, my writing and all of my hopes & dreams with out a doubt of confidence.
Rich is a poet. He is a writer, a soul full of prodigious energy - someone who has gone through things that are unimaginable to the mind but poetically explained by his words.
Follow his journey as he takes you on a roller coaster ride of emotion -
xoxo
Krystle Carrissa
“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”