“To the Silver Line” – I heard the man say.

            Him standing on a street corner –

            His hat and hair looking disarrayed –

            With his beard getting all the while thinner.

I stopped and asked him what he meant.

With his sentence of supposed cheer.

And the only statement he gave back to me –

Well it was simple and sincere.

“Ma’am – I stand here to spread some light on a world that looks so sad

The Silver Line is all that is left – it is all I ever had”

I studied him for a small moment

And then asked him one last thing –

            “Sir, you seem so happy – why do you stand HERE and sing?

            Of all the places in this world where joy illuminates around –

Why is it here – on this dirty street corner – that you say to the Silver Line?”

He smiled and pointed without a sound to a girl on that same street –

“You see that girl – well she has less than me – and she showed ME the linings streak – That the sun does shine, as birds do fly, and trees budding flowers too:

A smile, a tear, a laugh, but now fear – for love is all that we have!

The Silver Line is only safe if we let it be just that –

                                                            Safe and Sound in Heart and Soul

                                                            Where all things come around –

                                                            The Silver Line is what we have left

                                                            When all else runs a ground.”

I walked away in slight confusion – wishing to comprehend.

And then I quit my searching – understanding my “Silver friend”

I was looking for the big bright things

Those that knock down all my doors –

But I saw that life with all its’ gifts

Can be Big and Small – And Yours

So maybe the man on the corner – had an intuition after all.

Our Silver Lines are what Life is really all about.

Maybe left life give out the signs – So our hearts will open wide –

And the Rest will be Set Free – In you – In Him – and in me.