Just over the horizon CJ, very well written, thank you.....Andrew....xxx

carol, this is in my opinion one of your finest efforts. The title with it's double or triple meaning starts into couplets of restrained wisdom and beauty. They are all good,
"Slender slivers of quiet belief
Taken by the absence thief" says soo much in such a poetic way.
"Was not all that I really should
Not lived life to best and good" is a sentiment of coming up short in our own eyes, but our own eyes are not the only eyes.

As you so often do, you ask very deep emotional questions, in a quiet and loving way. 13 lines of sheer poetry!