My goodness ... you're perceptive! -- (I didn't really think anybody would catch that so I dismissed it as filler) --

>the three steps behind his shadow could be interpreted as grandfather(1step) father(2steps)
>child(3steps). child being you?

My writings can be so eclectic sometimes, one never really knows "where" I'm comin' from --

But I appreciate your delving into the translation/interpretation.

A guitar string vibrating, a measure of my soul, a breech in the silence --
I've always felt like words come through me & I write them down... they have no master --- gsquared ♥

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