Dear Sann:

I wish other people would comment on this poem, not only me. It will be interesting to read others’ understandings of it.

More thoughts about the poem after reading your point about control, and I won’t relate it to your life or mine directly, but more generally: it is not All or Nothing, the issue of control. We have some controlling to do. For example, if I want something to happen, I can start it happening, make a move for it to happen and then wait for a response. Then, if I am still very interested in that something to happen, I may ask questions so to understand why it is not happening and once I get the answers, and figure: oh, there is nothing for me to do at this point, then I let go. No more efforts to control. I don’t believe there is a plan for me, by god/ universe/ some version of good-old-god. There is no plan. Things don’t happen for a reason. We can make our lives meaningful and learn from our experience- and others’ experience- but there is no predetermined reasons to random occurrences.

anita