What if...

What if we were soul mates? Only we are snails and we are both slinking down our slimy paths when our boneless bodies collide. Of course it would be a rather anticlimactic collision but we could not say fate didn't give us a fair shake. We exchange antennae greetings and cross signals. I just crawled over a neglected pile of canine dung and you just finished gorging on some discarded rotten chicken, both of us just don't represent who we are according to our feelers at the time. So, slowly, ever so slowly, we go our separate ways leaving behind a shiny reminder of of paths crossed yet never truly joined. What if we were people...