Chance Meetings

CHANCE MEETINGS

Withdrawn within

Nothing do I let in

Thinking of a way out

Looking around and about

Thinking of a way to go

Before being caught up

In the surrounding show

Unbeknownst to me

A chance meeting

Doth come to be

Detaining me

For an eternity

We walk on a path

Seemingly alone

Asking for guidance

Seeking a home

Random doth life seem

Nothing like my dream

Where things are connected

Where they’re directed

Then when the pieces

together doth come

we marvel at what

life doth become

in each chance meeting

if we doth glean

the purpose, meaning

not what it doth seem

when looking back

the path is clear

though looking ahead

the unknown we

see instead

this chance meeting

that comes to be

and brings itself to me

is truly in a way

my destiny

-Shiidon, February 2010

I recently attended an event which led itself to a seemingly chance meeting. The more I spoke with this couple, the more our random lives seemed destined to cross paths. Sometimes these moments of connection seem random and sometimes they do not. In our lives we carry a pantheon of souls that we have encountered in our lives. Each one has a place in helping shape us in some way. We may or may not understand the connection at the time or we may. The meeting may be fleeting or the friendship lasting. Sometimes we think we understand the intent of the other person and sometimes we try to imprint our interpretation of the reasons for meeting. It is with hind sight that things are more clear. Day by day I have learned to just be and let things take their course. So far it is a peaceful and relaxing way to go through these turbulent days. So, customer, new friend, old friend, colleague, young, old I am a better person in knowing you and in a way am partially shaped by you.