Hello

The warmth of a kindness
from one person
to another
whether by an intimate
or a stranger
has the candle-power
of illuminating the soul
grateful to be noticed
eager to respond
in an exchange
of humanity's most
needed emotion realized
in a declaration that we are
as one with far more in
common than the
idiosyncrasies and
experiences that set us
apart, when the need to
view one another
unconstrained by
suspicion sets us free
to recognize ourselves
in that other.