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Serendipity

Introduction

Today is February 22, 2006, and I am 37 today. Each birthday holds a theme for me, and this year, it is about friends, relationships, and how they change with age. I thought of a very cryptic poem I wrote 13 years ago about the cycle of friendship and relationships, and how they can be so strong, then drift apart, and then a new person can come into your life and it can start all over. Today is also my one-year wedding anniversary. It is a long story, but my wife and I have been together for almost 13 years, but since we married, this has been the best year of my life with her. Enjoy the poem. Enjoy your life. I made it to 37! Not everyone does…

Serendipity

serendipity
taking hold of me
360 degrees
spinning in circles
spheres in orbit
looking back to see
what i built is in the breeze
in threes
back where i started
looking into my eyes
her eyes
your eyes
brown and green
strange colors turned to red
red shifts to night like black
a shade of pink in the gray
pure white holds the balance in her hands
a lithograph
only a photograph
further back i step away
view the yonder
stop to ponder
city lights
another day
streets intersect
an intercourse
fusing in a square
a place for chance
your way
my way
his way
her way
a meeting by chance
a destiny
a certainty
a menagerie
intersection turned to tangent
a red shift
human galaxies
drifting together
fading apart
magnetic
pole to pole
pushing away
struggling to coincide
screaming inside
saying good-bye
pierced in the soul
falling
i let go
falling fast towards the sea
falling fast and free
sprouting wings for you
for me
all i can see
circling
spiraling
perching
it’s quite a view from mt. serendipity

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© 2006 Christian Cloud Abraham

Posted on February 22, 2006 in
Emotion: Wonder, Type: Poetry/Prose