The Impact of a Small Act

You’ll think it odd what I did today...

I gave a fellow my shirt... not off my back per se

but as it were... I remembered from weeks ago:

It was what he had asked me for...

“I love your shirt! Will you let me have it?!” eyes pleading

in that as of yet not jaded unadult belief that it all might

somehow become reality... maybe half-jokingly...

we grow up so very fast, and drastically.

But I thought to myself—why not?!

If it would make a person Happy? and it’s as simple

as just this act...

I did not think it would hit him

as hard as it did...

We’d likely never meet up again, and I was hardly “spoiling” him

though it seemed that I did...

He said: “Why did you do it M..? when I am such a piece of sh*t?”

Perhaps it was the unwitting symbolism... that made it all so devastating.