I should pay more attention

to the people I run into  in the middle of the night

when I am out strolling in the dark.

Maybe I should say hello, or maybe I should say nice evening isn’t it?

I could even ask them for the time even though it doesn’t

matter to me, not really.

But when it’s dark and you see a stranger

heading towards you- straight towards you, as if they were put on this

Earth to be there at that time- walking towards you in the middle of the night

it’s polite to introduce yourself and say Hello.

Or in my case

Goodbye.

Edvard Munch, Moonlight, 1893