Estranged By Birth

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Two strangers met in a circumstantial coincidence.

Too far fetched to be an artefact of an architect.

One man said to the other

“How strange it is to be chained to fate.”

The other turned his head and asked in return

“What sort of simpleton delegates chance and fate to command their days?”

“What other way is there in the world? When there are things we can change and things we cannot.”

The two then sighed in a resigning way as if turning their backs on their past lives.

As decades slide and pass away, the living well decays from the greatness of youth, to the bitterness of aged truth.

“So here’s to the days long gone, here’s to me and here’s to you. Befriended by chance. Who would have guessed we were brothers once. Separated at birth. For all its worth I know you now and it is good.”