I Stopped Along the Way

I stopped along the way
and talked, for just a while
to someone I'd not known
very well or very long

In the time that past
we shared
discovering a tune
musical notes floating around us


What is this new song?
I wondered
Silently, afterward
I sat musing about our humanity

Don't know how long it's been
Since I've stopped
to talk so long
I should do it more often

People do not know
at the time it happens
what influence
will be felt

All I can say is it's
transforming
to be human
to see other sides of the coin

Certainly, we are all attached
some way, somehow
despite our differences
our disconnectedness

Perhaps we are here
to reconnect
where we have been
pulled apart

Copyright 9 August 2007 David Scott
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If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow