W.A. Cholt Poet Free verse

Thoughts On a Passing Stranger

In walking mist between the sunshowers
A careless passerby stumbles
He stares awkwardly for a moment 
And then carries himself onwards, 
I could have known him but for his haste 
And was sure something familiar struck me about him,
Perhaps the unshaved face
The careless erratic approach 
The whole untidiness of his appearance, 
Something kept probing my thoughts 
Asking questions of him,
Perhaps an old friend from the past
Someone with whom I had shared many troubles,
Perhaps no one that I knew at all
But who resembled someone that I did,
All these thoughts entered my head
And disappeared without any satisfaction. 

                W.A CHOLT.  Copyright Fergal O Reilly.  1993.

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John Lawless January 25, 2019 at 6:24 PM You gave him the honor and dignity of being noticed and thought about and that says much about you as an observer of life.