"To A Stranger" by Walt Whitman analysis

The poem "To A Stranger," by Walt Whitman can be interpreted in a vast variety of ways. In my opinion, it is Whitman meeting or seeing God in a dream or vision, his quest for another sight of Him, and the knowing that the wait will be worth it. The first two lines of the poem show the how the narrator longs for a this person, who is, in my opinion, God. "I have somewhere, surely," and "lived a life of joy with you," in lines six and seven tell of the life that Whitman has lived with the stranger without even really knowing him or her. In the third stanza, the narrator tells of how much time was spent together between the stranger and the narrator; they literally did everything together, just like how he would have done everything with God. In the last stanza, Whitman talks about how he is not to speak to the stranger, he can only think of him or her. Whitman knows that they will meet again, and he knows that then, they will not be separated. All of these seem very similar to prayer and thoughts of heaven, and for that reason, I believe that this stranger in Whitman's poem is God.