Hope on the Common Sidewalk
Each day, he donned a suitable face
to hide fierce sorrows in his heart. His
black emotions cannibalized
his goodness and nourished
a hunger for low fare.
As each day transitioned from light to dark
He professed himself between marginal and inconsequential
He knew it was all because
in his callous, empty life
love and caring were only constructs
as remote as the moon.
He would never, he thought,
Experience either.
Then one day—just ahead on the common sidewalk
She wandered into his frightful arc
Without fear, without judgment
With a smile that lifted his downcast spirit
With a hello that cast warmth into his icy heart
She offered a sensual grace
And a radiance of sincerity that--
all at once --
made him see what
love and caring might be like
She was in his life for the seconds it took
For them to pass one other
She-- as unattainable as the stars--
For her, a mere friendly smile at a stranger-
(Well, why not?)
Never knowing that she had given the stranger
Enough of a spark to kindle the will to come back
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