Kizmet

I - poetry:

Eyes meet

hearts stop

hands sweat

and tremble

thoughts

scatter

unifying

in the single

overwhelming

truth

that at last

one is

complete

the emptiness

unrecognized

till it was no more

is now filled

the heart

is whole

life can begin...

again.

II - Prose:

Dana and Marla worked together the summer before Dana started graduate school. All Dana did was work, apartment hunt, and read in preparation for her classes in the fall. Convinced that Dana needed to get out and live a little, Marla suggested that she visit her favorite café to check out one of the counter people.

“He’s a hottie,” she told her.

“We’ll see,” Dana responded, thinking, I don’t have the time or the money...

A few days later, Dana stopped by the café Marla had mentioned to pick up a shake to have with the sandwich she had brought from home. As she stood in line to order, HE looked up and their eyes met.

Was he the man Marla meant for her to meet? She had never described him nor pointed him out to Dana. But in that moment, she knew with every part of her being that he was the one meant for her.

Fortunately, he had the same feeling of “I have been waiting for you all my life.”

And they lived happily ever after...with the requisite amount of anger, elation, frustration, satisfaction, tears, joy, sadness and laughter to keep it interesting. :-)