<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=414483" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Recipient or donor?</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Smile at a stranger on the train<br>Someone you’ll never see again.<br>Just acknowledge he is there.<br>He may be sunk in black despair.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Perhaps he will smile back at you <br>but you must not expect him to.<br>He has his life and you have yours<br> and they are separate of course.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You smile might change the way he sees<br>his world as full of miseries<br>He goes his way and you go yours.<br>You’ll never know you changed the course <br> <br>of this strangers life in some way.<br>Perhaps the words you did not say<br> that made him feel your empathy<br>Which enabled him to see </div><div style="margin:10px 0"> his future much more hopefully<br>A simple smile is all it takes<br>If it is received gratefully.<br>To let him know that past mistakes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Can be forgiven totally<br> if you repent and change your ways.<br>He almost imperceptibly<br>nods his head and looks your way.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He got your message loud and clear<br>Your kindly smile has changed his mood<br> But you will never know I fear<br>there is no reason why you should.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We all impinge on others lives<br>in ways we do not understand.<br>A kindly smile often survives<br> as long as any helping hand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Smile at a stranger on your way<br> its such an easy thing to do.<br>To brighten up a strangers day<br>Today maybe I’ll smile at you</div><div style="margin:10px 0">8-Jun-07</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ivor+Or+Ivor.e+Hogg">Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=414483" data-title="Recipient or donor? de Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg" data-description="Smile at a stranger on the train Someone you’ll never see again. Just acknowledge he is there. He may be sunk in black despair. Perhaps he will smile back at you but you must not expect him to. He has his life and you have yours and they are..."></div> </div> </div>

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