Happenstance

There are in anyone's life
opportunities to discover 
the best in others. Friends
can last a lifetime and
alternately a lifetime can
be spent absent friends
while transitory friends
can reveal themselves briefly
but meaningfully and
movingly within an
introduction before parting
which may consume a tiny
portion of a day. Met and
soon to be parted, but
remembered during the
brief exposure of a trip
to a place far removed from
one's ordinary life. A
fortuitous meeting that
becomes part of the lore and
legend of life's experience.