How <br />Greetings go the response to strangers <br />In the street, <br />With such a superficial exchange of words <br />Every time they meet. <br />A paradoxical and peculiar thing it seems to me, <br />That they announce their lives to these replies <br />So optimistically… <br />For after they part ways, even before they turn around, <br />Gloomily the mind strays and their hearts are on the ground.<br /><br />Josh Terpening<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/passers-by-6/
