A stranger in the crowd | Photo by Lino Khim Medrina

Ode to a Stranger [A Poem]

vivid in my memory

I see your shirt

the color of ivory

tucked into your denim skirt

you had on a beautiful yellow stole

oh! how can I forget

your blue flip flops with printed pink sole

the nameless beautiful brunette

you were another stranger

but I wanted to stop you

to ask you about the weather

other mundane things or something new

you walked by and into the crowd

I watched till you were just a spot

a distance away, soon lost behind a shroud

my heart, the gullible’s mascot

we could have been friends

in another life, in another world

or maybe lovers, feeling transcends

of peace, we were a herald

but in this world, we will remain unknown

facing our chaotic lives all alone