For one reason or another there are many people who would really very much like to leave the nest of a home they have, but can not pass the threshold of their doorways. They sit in the dark or relative darkness of the little safety and seclusion they have. Perhaps they only need a helping hand. Perhaps they fear any hand. It can be very sad, but with the right person offering the right help at the right time in the right loving gentle way… then they might roam.

Margaret Alden is a writer from New Zealand who has been writing poetry for years. Her poetry has recently been published through Triond on AuthSpot. Her work covers a broad scope of topics from "ecstatic joy" to "dark depression"; and from "the secular" to "the spiritual". Her writing will interest a broad spectrum of people – even if not all poems will interest all.