The Walk

[Truerenigma]

Thanks tec, yes there are a lot of stock responses and irrelevant associations that come up with many poems. In this case though the piece seems to have generated a lot of interest, and has reached many readers who are asking themselves a lot of, perhaps difficult, questions. I can't ask for much more. It would be fairly easy for me to write an informative prose piece that defines a word or two; this poem, however, was extremely difficult to be made to look simple and easy, and it is easy for me to toss and dismiss many earlier works as being mere studies to this poem and others like it.

There is no guilt for me in being proud of this poem--I could do, and have done, much worse.

A confidant and/or comrade is always a gift imo. I disagree with some of the seemingly fairly common views that poems need to exorcize that confidence.