Imagination

I fell in love with a stranger today.

The sun was setting on the coarse, choppy, water. 

Wind blowing wisps of the white caps, and littering the brackish water throughout the woods. 

His children, a girl no more than 6 and her little brother, no more than 2, sitting on a gazebo.

Their right sides and backs to the golden rays and dark green bay.

Sheltered. 

He had set up his tripod for photographs. 

I watched with music playing in my ears.

His little girl smiled, I smiled back so happy to see her happy. 

Childhood joy.

Then I noticed he was watching me, not looking through his camera.

I blushed, embarrassed to let myself show joy in that moment. 

He smiled with just as much joy to me.