The Hap Hazard

I shook hands with happiness and realized how very little there was that we, in fact, knew about each other

I was uncertain of whether this was an epiphany born out of trauma or born out of aging,

either way---

I think I liked this newfound friendship between me and this foreign sentiment,

and I liked to think we we held manifests manifested with each other's destiny
and that I had something to teach it,
just as it had something to offer me

But until now, I was ignorant of faith,
of poise,

I had been numb to confidence all these scores of years,
anaesthetized to being sensitized

and then I cried for you,
until I learned to cry for me---