Linda -- thank you for your kind comment & I'm glad you found beauty in the poem. It was actually written in 1998 during a 5 year poetry writing cycle. I was single & had some land I intended to build on. This year I bought a home & married my sweetheart of several years -- so, the poem is fulfilled for me... in time. I don't write poetry anymore ( I tend to move from one creative medium to another) but will be posting additional poems written during that writing phase under the 'locustao' handle. I hope you'll find others that speak to you. Warm regards, Glenn A. Hines