comment on "time and distance"

     Despite the apparent simplicity of this poem, it was a challenge.  With the first verse in hand, and not a clue where it was going, the decision was made to keep the verses at three lines and the last word of each verse had to rhyme with the last word of the prior verse.  Second, the poem had to reach a recognizable conclusion.  And third, once a verse was left behind for the next verse, it could never be changed!