Meeting

Strangers met,
a thought, a smile,
a shared opinion, interest,
a common fear, sorrow;

A pleasant surprise,
an unlooked for connection,
lighting a fire of the intellect,
a momentary brush with another soul
looking at the world from the same hill;

Binds them together a moment, a year, an eternity?
or breakaway to calls of different ways, paths,
other pressing conflagrations to be lit or put out;

The moment passes,
the fire cold
Strangers met,
leave,
strangers again.