Two Strangers

Two Strangers

You told me your sorrow and I told you mine
Our clouded eyes masking the light,
Two strangers frozen in a capsule of time

Words eased with pungent red wine
Revealed the horror of that terrible night
You told me your sorrow and I told you mine

I recalled the pain of my horrible time
While our gazes met in an awful fright
Two strangers, frozen in a capsule of time

You smiled at me, compassionate and kind.
A moment's relief from my psyche's blight
You told me your sorrow and I told you mine

Desperate stories of a different kind;
Neither of us wrong nor right
Two strangers frozen in a capsule of time

Fused together on a common vine
We sought solace from a shared plight,
You told me your sorrow and I told you mine
Two strangers, frozen in a capsule of time.

...KBris