Starbucks Boy

I must have been looking at the floor, I must have because it wasn’t until he was right in front of me that I saw him.
I just remember out of nowhere, he was there. He was right there.
I saw him. And he saw me. And it was a matrix moment.
The world muted and time slowed to a stop.
Except for us – we kept walking.
And he looked back at me as we passed and I looked back at him. And nothing else existed.
But we just kept walking.
And my heart was pounding and I was suffocating.
And I was too scared to look back again.
Scared because I thought maybe he might still be looking back at me too? Or scared because he might not be? I don’t know.
I just kept walking, and I was so sad.

It was just a moment. Just one moment. Lost.