A QUESTION OF BALANCE

 

Garnering the thoughts

of others, he fails

to find some of his own -

 

he holds back tears to show

he does not share

the fears others know.

 

He balances the cost of feeling

against the numbness

of blind fate. He sighs

 

and calculates the cost

of caring, avoids the sharing

of any others woe.

 

He always felt that questions

would sustain his growth -

he never claimed to know.

 

He bought himself

a ticket to ride

then found

 

he had no place to go.

 

 

                       Malcolm Evison

                       19 November 2006