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15 April 2021 - Hilton Head

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Biking through the Southern woods,
Between the pines and oak and gum,
I came across a runner,
Well, truth be told, he came across me,
A young man in his 20's -
Dressed the part in shirt and shorts and running shoes,
We shared a look and a hello,
A knowing look of humans,
Who have discovered what it means to be alive,
Different places on our journeys through life,
We were companions for the moment,
Bike in the sand I cannot keep up,
He'll go off to his races,
And I'll go off to mine,
To each other on the trail,
We'll always be fellow men,
Life telescoped into a moment of connection,
Not yet broken, his body carries him alone,
And I know,
He'll smile back at the young man,
He encounters in the woods,
Two or three or four decades hence,
In the end we're all part of the same tree:
Humanity.