Meeting Someone On-Time

Can you synchronize
Your roll to the car,
Loading yourself in,

With your arrival
Just when expected,
No more and no less?

You can, but you can’t
Without a measure
Of good fortune, met

Along the tale’s path.
Luck is a compact
Way to sum them all,

The correlatives,
The field equations,
The endless impacts—

Large but far away,
Local and constant
But also minor, small.

Luck is your context
Sum-totaled, is all.
Can you synchronize

You and your context,
Your plans with the ways
Things happen to fall?