It’s all a series of serendipities
with no beginnings and no ends.
Such infinitesimal possibilities
Through which love transcends.
(Ana Claudia Antunes, The Tao of Physical and Spiritual)
Serendipity on an Ordinary Friday
I have other plans,
agendas carved from time
not yet touched by day or night.
Instead, I meet a stranger
face to face,
eye to eye.
Five minutes after
your name, my name,
we recognize our common places
where the ugly and beautiful meet.
We, strangers before 10AM,
on an ordinary Friday,
speak, listen, and within twenty minutes
share an embrace.
Our skin colors appear different,
in the way two gifts,
both carrying gems,
don’t mimic their wrappings.
Today’s sun shines. It also casts shadows.
No longer strangers, she and I
have been blessed by light.
terrypetersen 
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