thought provoking read, well done

Ah, yes! I feel a change coming on. Thank you for this great piece of poetry!

Love ya!

Jane

your character's psyche, who strives for changes is understandable, Michael. As for his old friends, I do remember one parable, which briefly runs like this: one lad, before becoming a novice, was very poor and an abbot gave him a small hut, just adjacent to the temple. The lad was so grateful that he took to cooking ten pancakes a day as a gift to the abbot. Each time, upon receiving the pancakes, the abbot used to give back one of them to the lad with the words, "And I present you with this one. I wish your sons and your son's sons ever-increasing prosperity!" This caused the lad to wonder. "What does it mean? I present him the pancakes but every time, one of them he returns as though it were his own gift for me..." At last, he went to ask the abbot directly. "You present me, I present you. What's that to you?" was the reply. . . What sort of 'something new' the hero of your poem is looking for, Michael? Cheers, alex

I believe Shakespeare said it first… "Something about friends that knew him well." One things for sure, all of Shakespeare's friends and the friends of his story heroes are long gone and buried.

Ron