Category : Poems

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You are a stranger that I have never met
And yet our paths might've crossed before 
Maybe we passed each other on the street
Maybe we passed each other on the highway
Heading to different destinations,
but traveling the same path
If only for a little while
A small hint of the future ahead 

Or maybe we lived in the same neighborhood
and went to the same school
Walked the same hallways 
and attended the same classes
Knew the same teachers
But despite incredible odds never met 

Our days are filled with chance encounters
That happen  for many  reasons 
Reasons we will never know
millions of spilt second decisions
All colliding at once

Maybe if you stayed somewhere a second longer
Or went somewhere else a second sooner
Someone who you currently don't know 
Would have been in your life
Maybe you missed your cue
Or maybe they missed theirs? 
Somewhere their lives
Could be happening in perfect parallel to yours
Your stories and theirs
A melody of the same song sung in harmony. 

Have you ever glanced at a crowd
And wondered the life you might have shared
had circumstances been different?
You never know how easy your path 
could have been on a different course
meeting someone else
Who would feel like your best friend
Like your soulmate
You tell yourself it was always meant to be 
As if you knew your paths would cross.
As if you knew our paths would cross.
When it could nothing more,
than a coincidence.
A  happy, joyful coincidence, 
but a coincidence nonetheless.