Meeting You

©2009 by Alice Walker

Kept from
Your birth
Still I realize
We
Will someday
Meet.

Hello, you might
Begin the conversation.
Are you
My grandmother?
And I,
Being your
Cheeky Monkey twin
May reply:
Maybe.

Or I might
begin:
Yo, cute boy,
Are you
My grandchild?
& you,
Cautious Capricorn
Might reply:
It's possible.

You will see
Living as you do
In the Aquarian
Age
When it is
At last
Possible
For mere
Thought
To quickly
Transform
The world -
Nothing
Will
Ultimately separate
us:
Not
Space
Not
Time
Not unanticipated
Turbulence
&
Discord.

Life
Keeps us apart
Now
For a reason
Only it
Knows:
Understanding
This
We have only
To endure
A separation
That
Instantly
Disappears
Whenever you
Or I
Smell
A
Flower.

Perhaps
Like all Gods
In whom
We must
Have trust
Life
Grandmother's
God
Of choice
Is simply
Testing
Us.