I have been asked often by my partner and children;
'what are you smiling at?
what has made you sad?
what is so funny?  
oh why the sigh? are you crying?
who are you talking to?
what are you thinking about?
are you doing that poetry stuff again?

Reading and writing here at HP
I have, felt many emotions;
learnt much,
grown,
engaged.....Freely.
I have shared my most inner fears, secrets, joys, dreams and desires.
Know some of yours too.

I say to them, ''See these names here, these are some of my closest friends''.

''but you don't know them mum and they don't know you, and they come from all over the world''
and my partner chirps in,
'' and who is  this Frank fella then?'............

So, I turn to my nearest and dearest and  I say,
''see this name here,
this man without a face,
he knows more of me than you do''.