My last walk

[Keith]

no line by from me, i did like the poem and i suppose from the last couplet i should have gotten it was a suicide but i didn't, i think what threw me was the abseil, (which is usually done with a rope) i enjoyed the triviality of it all which is probably how the suicide saw the world. the couplet is excellent given the context of the poem, i wonder if the title takes us too far away from the act

Too far away, I agree have took your suggestion and changed the title, thanks Billy

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This is a brilliant poem. The simple descriptions of of people and there loved ones/day to day activities seem detached from the jumper. It seemed to me to stress all the simple fundamentals that they wouldn't/couldn't have, but then the second line of the 3rd stanza seems to denote some sort of regret? I loved the wording, its very relaxed, almost tranquil in its description of such a horrible event.

Thanks for your considered reply Catcherin glad you picked up on the would/ could not have as this was my intention and the regret too late. thanks TOMH