I decided one day to send out a note <br />'To each his own', I wrote <br />not expecting much of anything <br />but what I got back surprised me <br />a person writing of strange things <br /> <br />They wrote: 'Do you remember laughing out loud <br />snatching raindrops from the clouds <br />or looking deep in someone's eyes <br />and thinking back of time gone by' <br /> <br />I couldn't believe the audacity <br />of someone I had never before seen <br />but with what I read, someone, somewhere <br />had struck a chord with me <br />but I likened it to a flood <br />which sweeps in, and washes away <br />sent out a clear note of intent <br />first thing the next day <br /> <br />'To each his own', I wrote <br />but tell me an ordinary joke <br />or a harmless, everyday quote <br />someone anyone would say <br />to carry on from day to day <br /> <br />But what I got back was the same thing: <br />'Do you dance in dreams of moonbeams? <br />Lift your eyes up to the sky <br />and count the stars until midnight' <br /> <br />I couldn't even think of such things <br />angels, stars and moonbeams <br />I then decided to end these notes <br />'To each his own', I joked <br /> <br />I then tended to my ordinary strife <br />a status quo man in a status quo life <br />when someone began to stir within me <br />of things long ago buried <br /> <br />I then suddenly laughed out loud <br />an almost forgotten sound <br />I went outside and counted the stars <br />stretching across and wide so far <br />I then swore I could see moonbeams <br />and even tried to catch the rain <br /> <br />I wrote my friend the very next day <br />the world opened to me in a new way <br />The response was simple as 1-2-3 <br />'To each his own! ' <br />they wrote back to me<br /><br />Kevin Howell<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/chain-letter-2/
