To My Friend Ranjeeth Thunga aka Perspective Mapper – https://perspectivemapper.org/

We who criss-crossed each other's paths
At our alma mater Johns Hopkins
Though not quite met each other that time
As I hung out in the library
And you hung out with the girls
Wearing your psychedelic shirts
And reading the Howl and Ferlinghetti
Sprawled on the grass in the Hopkins Quad
But this is all my imagination
How would I know since I never ran into you
In those early 1990s when we were young
You a good 10 years younger than me.

But that was the past, which is now a blur
Resurrected you are now as Perspective Mapper
Like the phoenix from the ashes you rose
Burned as you did in the flames of ignorance of others
That even those hallowed halls were privy to.

Perspective mapping, wouldn't you agree
Is a bit like Reader Response Theory 
Responding as we all are to this world
With our individual takes on it
Choosing to live in our different ways
Wanting and loving different things
Thus, each of our perspectives differing
On what we think this world and life are all about
Just as each reader interprets the text differently
And what is this world and what is this life
But a text written by Nature or God
Which no interpretation or perspective
Can exhaust it in its entirety.

https://perspectivemapper.org/