A Remark You Made

Originally posted 3/27/2010.

A remark you made

affirmed for me
that someone
had indeed
been listening,
at least once,
perhaps by chance
more than
for any reason,
but however it happened
it happened, and so
I thank you,
for as a result

I was able to imagine
for a moment

myself
as carrier,
as burden-bearer
in the oldest sense,
the honorable sense,
stepping out
of my front door
carrying a seed
which by chance or design
I must have dropped
into a good place
as I hurried away.