If Doors Opened and did not Close

what if you woke up one day

and opened your bedroom door

and passing through it to the hallway

could not close it anymore?

and the man you walked by on the corner

whose kind gaze you did meet

you could speak with twenty years from now

though you merely passed him on the street

what if when you packed your bag

and departed your home town

your high-school friend's embrace

meant she'd be with you fifty years from now?

and if a far away child looked up

and saw sunset when you saw sunrise

you could know the awe and bewilderment

that would be present in his eyes

what if human connectivity

were not so intangible a thing

but was warm and alive in all of us

and bound our hearts eternally?