POETRY
     
 
YOU DO NOT KNOW ME

I am profoundly moved because
you do not know me

you do not know me
you do not know how much,
how little, we might
have in common
how wide the distances that
span the paths we tread
or if, in fact, you'd even
say "hello" should
we encounter one another

you do not know me
yet you reach far
into the stream of feelings
gathering out handsful
of pebbles

kindness, sacrifice,
unselfish thought and
most of all
desire
not of a wanton ilk
but smoothed and polished
in the flow of Life and our experience

somewhere
need has called to need
forged in the human condition
that molds us all

and so

you do not know me
but I will touch a thousand lives
as you have chanced
on mine
and like the tides
that flow to other shores
e'en as they ebb from ours
and flow again -
it will return to you -
your kindness to a stranger

I THANK YOU
1989

Goessoftly
Retired Therpaist
www.goessoftlyishere.com
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