From nowhere We were drawn together Fated to meet like this As my sense of self and destiny speaks of meanings and values arrogantly The other selves I might have been slipped silently into the shadow I am here at this moment The thrill that courses through me is something I’ve claimed as my own I long to cry it out to the world Who could accept that life’s sorrows and joys are mere happenstance Especially when I am passive and probabilistic Powerless as I am I grasp at fate and the impossible Feeling the ache of my helplessness deep within Even if the forces that shaped me were mere accidents Even if our meeting was a happy accident Still I choose to embrace myself to protect you Because the you who could have been me And the me who might have been you Might never have met at all