I saw this and thought of you.

The most meaningful words a person could ever say?
“I saw this and thought of you.”
It means that you crossed someone’s mind
And made them feel something, without any
personal prompting. Maybe it’s a good
Thought. Maybe it’s a bad thought.
But what does duality matter when either way,
Someone verified that in this reality… you exist.
In that fleeting instant, someone sees you as real.
How I wish I could hear those words.
But I’ve already been executed and forgotten
By the final death that the old sages speak of—
When your name is spoken for the last time—
My stages of dying are out of sequence,
Which will make the death that was yanked
From the front of the line and pushed back—
My physical death— meaningless.