A Man Alone Redux Comments

Read this poem a few times and the more I read it the more I sensed the deep peace in the background. A man facing death alone yet as the first line of this powerful poem declares he has an obscure feeling of being protected. Great image- perhaps there are compassionate eyes watching my bold strides through experience and I can feel some humor in the way you describe the poor unfortunate walker trying to enjoy the beauty and distract himself from all the hidden dangers that might assail him. There is courage here you are looking at life head on neither relieved or frightened by all the stories the mind comes up with, yet as Robert said you are facing the stark reality of the inevitable. I love the last verse Age is the only mathemathics I can comprehend, it demands no calculations, no right or wrong answers, no effort at mastery. It made me smile. How simple, how freeing. This reflective poem makes us all ponder the mystery of life and death. I wrote a poem called Death the Final Ravishment. You may find interesting.my deepest sense is death is nothing more than the child going home. What an incredible journey life is and death the greatest adventure of all. A voyage into the unknown. A very satisfying read on one of my favourite subjects life and death.

'' All we know is that / each of us dies a man or a woman alone. '' Right. And indeed, we are alone always.. even in the most intimate moments spent with the person we love... Life is a ''solo-voyage'': we take it in perfect loneliness, although we so often wish to think that we are in the company of someone...