Human Goodness Wins

It happens when we least expect it

Or, maybe we didn’t recognize it, because it transpires bit by bit.

One day you see each other every day

Then you don’t see one another for a ten-month delay.

I am not sure why it occurs

Thinking that today will last forever, but never recurs.

Then it is gone and tomorrow is here

But those times, some good and some bad, are just old memories that I endear.

Sometimes the most trying times and toughest situations

Draw us close to each other through thoughtful conversations.

We see work friends each day

But then the closeness disappears, when one goes away.

When enough time has passed, we want to reconnect

And make sense out of the weirdness, from all of the past disconnect

That seemed to turn the world upside down

And cause, what was sometimes fun, to turn into a frown.

It happens when people aren’t aware

Of others feelings and causes disrepair.

It destroys relationships and drives out what once was good

But in the end human goodness wins, as it should.

Today’s gift was to buy lunch for a former work friend.

We shared war story memories before the descend

That brought us close together, then

Connected us once again.

In Giving,

Robin