Not Alone

For me & Podge there isn’t a complexity in loneliness, 

tho’ not like we’d not miss each other’s company, or if 

it came to that, grieve on being parted; its just that we 

don’t feel it as alone; th’ paths we regularly pace have 

animal tracks aplenty, reminders opining we’re only a 

smidgen of its indigenous traffic, and that is a leveller 

which says you don’t have to see company to be in it, 

and they’re there - believe us, watching patiently 

So yesterday’s grey kangaroo visits, along with three 

scrub turkey’s clandestine wanderings and the spoor 

of four deer say ‘gidday’; yep, you’re not on your own 

because voices and rave music with revving engines 

didn’t cheer you out of Saturday’s doldrums; but we’ll 

take a rain check on raging Westerlies - if it’s okay 

© 28 May 2016, I. D. Carswell