Written under her name Edith Kokernot, probably after her divorce in 1971 when she was newly single. An earlier draft of this is called Lost Moment.
He paused to let me pass him in the crowd.
Suddenly, his eyes found mine and were still in their searching.
Embarrassed and afraid, I glanced away.
When I dared to look again, he was gone.
Caught in my youthful dreams I sought him everywhere.
As the years passed, I wondered what would have happened.
If we had talked and not been shy…
Or smiled, asked a name, let a friendship grow.
Life’s miracles are for the taking yet go unrecognized.
And we are unaware that life has suddenly changed its course,
But for a fateful hesitation, or a word unspoken,
Another path taken unknowingly toward a new destiny.