Dear Stranger

A small act of kindness can go a long way

Dear Stranger 

Your passing smile was well received 

Under awnings as I had from rain

And falling ice shards 

Which clatter to the side walk

Like broken glass on broken tiles 

Dear Stranger 

My lips turned into a smile 

As you handed me a coffee

and stood with me 

Staring out at the world 

Your eyes alive with wonder 

Dear Stranger 

You shrugged off your warm looking coat

And draped it over my shoulders 

It smelt of coffee and rain

Of summer and happiness 

Of kindness and caring 

Dear Stranger 

Or the one who's name I now know

Somewhere in the back of my mind 

You were kind to me 

I didn't ask you to stay

But you did 

To make a lonely soul a little less alone 

Dear Friend, 

Thank you

May fate bring us together again

Under a different awning 

On a different day 

Perhaps when we are different people