"Do you believe in long distance relationship?"
He had asked me once.
To this question, I just replied with a not so sure statement...
That night I thought about it,
How could it work?
Loving people who are so far away..
Won't you get bored at some point?
Frustrated maybe, when he is not around...
That urge to touch him
That urge to feel him
How do you deal with it?

But look at me now,
Falling for him who lives seven seas apart...
It is night there when the sun shines bright here...
It is chilling cold there when the weather is just right here...
But somehow I feel connected
I feel his presence around me
I think of him every second
And I keep smiling to myself....

We are so close yet so far
I m just waiting on the day
When I ll lie next to him
Against his heartbeat
Safe and sound from the chaos of the world
Secured like a child in her mother's lap
A place which I can finally call home
In his arms, where my heart can rest forever.....

left my phone unlocked
on the taxi’s back seat,
won't be the last time

called it a few times
finally, the driver picked up

he had a fare immediately after mine,
and was now headed way downtown,
and would call later
when fate returned him nearer my office

and so it came to pass,
very shortly thereafter,

we met on the street,
he rolled down  the window
and with the greatest smile of pleasure,
as if he had won the lottery
beaming,
handed me my phone

I had two $20's to cover any expense he might have incurred,
neatly folded in my hand  
and offered it right up, right away;
but the driver repeatedly pushed my hand away
as I insisted,
saying:

"No sir, no no, not necessary!

Allah sent me a fare
that took me soon back close to you, so,
  no loss of time did I suffer,
so your offer is kindly unnecessary!"

to which I replied,

"exactly!
Allah sent you to me
so I could reward you!"

and with an equally, beaming smile I continued,

"our ride and meeting today,
together was pre-ordained it was

Inshallah!" ^

something he could not dispute...
or my knowledge thereof and it’s
proper pronouncement,
nor
his amazement,
to disguise!

  we parted ways
   each believing,
   each receiving,
a heavenly check plus,
each, credited with a mitzvah^^
on our
respective trip logs,
our humanly divine balance sheets,
kept by the
single
supreme taxi dispatcher