A Happy Joyful Coincidence

You are a stranger that I have never met

And yet our paths might've crossed before

Maybe we passed each other on the street

Maybe we passed each other on the highway

Heading to different destinations,

but traveling the same path

If only for a little while

A small hint of the future ahead

Or maybe we lived in the same neighborhood

and went to the same school

Walked the same hallways

and attended the same classes

Knew the same teachers

But despite incredible odds never met

Our days are filled with chance encounters

That happen for many reasons

Reasons we will never know

millions of spilt second decisions

All colliding at once

Maybe if you stayed somewhere a second longer

Or went somewhere else a second sooner

Someone who you currently don't know

Would have been in your life

Maybe you missed your cue

Or maybe they missed theirs?

Somewhere their lives

Could be happening in perfect parallel to yours

Your stories and theirs

A melody of the same song sung in harmony.

Have you ever glanced at a crowd

And wondered the life you might have shared

had circumstances been different?

You never know how easy your path

could have been on a different course

meeting someone else

Who would feel like your best friend

Like your soulmate

You tell yourself it was always meant to be

As if you knew your paths would cross.

As if you knew our paths would cross.

When it could nothing more,

than a coincidence.

A happy, joyful coincidence,

but a coincidence nonetheless.