TRIP TO ELTHAM PALACE POEM 34

A plan is a good thing. It tells you where you are heading. Life brings unexpected things and so we change course and make an alternative plan - B. In a life well lived, perhaps, there is no plan B, but Plan A1.

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"But every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way and never again." Herman Hesse

Remote

I look across the water,

And our life lies over there,

But our life seems to be here,

A puzzle beyond my reckoning.

We build our life,

From four square walls,

Inviting no one to share,

Our plans are secret and close.

You climbed up the wall,

To my casement entering unseen,

Kissing me and rehearsing

Sweet nothings you promised.

Our love carried you up a wall,

Where will it take us,

Now it has given us wings,

With which to fly?

It is not so remote,

Our life,

As love has furnished us with the means.

“Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.” Samuel Johnson