Giving

If it were not for thought
Read between the lines
Then insight and understanding
Would have no beginning.

If it were not for those
Who chose to take that path
Perhaps your direction
Would not have been found.

If there be one thought
Conveyed by my expression
That may help you along your way
Then I have not only given
But gained confidence in myself.

We must exist as our own person
Each with no limit of space
No boundary.

But this is not to say
Your space cannot cross
Or become entwined with mine.

- Blanche McLanahan