My Dear Alain, @carmalain7

Even grateful for this quiet understanding:

"the misuse of a powerful tool by a me who thought they knew enough to aimlessly venture into a foreign place without a map and no direction."

and, how, if we're not careful things curdle into their opposites: "Silence is re purposed as a different form of noise, I think, for those pursuing it from those places."

I flirted with disaster as a younger man, romantic suffering and worse. Mercifully, you're healthier than I am, and @d-pend and the poetry community on Steemit are lucky to have you, here. Trying to guard my silences and solitude less jealously and participate more.

Thank you, for your patience, indulgence and sensitivity in drawing me out. And, I wish you continued success with your own art, and the art of living. Warmly,

Yahia