So here at last we come to it Gentle Lady. Residing in a new house; for myself that is; living on the other side of the country once more, and feeling relaxed and at home, it is I think time once more to pick my pen and resume writing.

Not just professionally – personally as well. Too long have I delayed in writing a letter to you, or a poem of any significance or quality – to say nothing of the profession career left to languish while I made the preparations to move.

Can a poem be of significance I wonder? Not the great poems of literature written by the dead – we both know those can be of great import on many levels. No I speak, as I slap at the mosquito I foolishly let in, of the written word of people like you and I who are – as yet at least – nobodies to history. You no doubt, will be recorded somewhere in due course, but for now we just one more grain of sand. 

So Lady, I ask you this: can the words we wrote be of significance? And if they are to only one person with no meaning or importance to anyone or more else, are they any less significant? I wonder. Sometimes I think a piece must be written for a great many to be of importance. Other times I think that all the great pieces were really written for a One alone and nothing more.

 They just happened to get spread around and, like an avalanche roaring downhill, simply gathered momentum as they were passed from person to person. Seem like a silly set of thoughts to occupy the mind with Lady? Perhaps – yet sometimes I wonder. 

I wrote a poem today; The Commitment; its quality debatable – significance none. Except to myself really. Perhaps that is all that really matters – perhaps. Though I am not so foolish as to ignore the fact that when the rare piece tickles you it gives me great pleasure.

…well, I clearly took too much time from writing and it shows – in the style and structure. I shall have to ease my way back into this habit. There was, and is, much to say yet – perhaps even to not say – but we shall save it for the next entry dear friends.

Dream well gentle surfer – and you Dear Lady, dream well.

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