Saying hello

Hello is the name of every other fellow.
From the stranger on the streets to your alter ego
Most-often said, at every turn heard,
Hello had perhaps begun this world.

Serve your hello with some spice in your eyes,
For a bland hello feels colder than ice.
Top your hello with some feeling on you face,
For a hello often tells more that it says.

As a gracious wave it crosses a mile,
A let-it-be nod or an I-don't-mind smile.
For hello is so very simple and cute
That it’s simple and cute even when mute.

Unseen to the seeing you might be
But unheard your hello can never be.
For the jack that turns his head that way,
A hello well twists it back this way.

Hello is sometimes the voice of the heart,
Sometimes the way a story would start.
It cares, it cures, it frees, and it binds,
And there are hellos of a zillion kinds.

Hear it come high, hear it come low,
Hear it come fast, hear it come slow,
Hear it come hot, hear it come cold,
Hear it come young, hear it come old,
Hear it come closed, hear it come open.
Here it comes, hello; here it comes, hearken!

Rajan