Nice poem, Mick, but I'm not with Candy either with you.
A poet is a spirit who just speaks out because so he needs to do. In the moment his words come it does'nt matter if there is or there will be audience or not.
In this I'm actually at the contrary of what all suggest to whom who want to write. They say that the writer should seat on the reader's seat. For me as that the writer would be false.
After, if the poet will show his words, then it will be a way to communicate. In that moment will be the reader to seat on the writer's seat.
But the moment a poet gets out his words he is a voice in the desert, he is absoluteliy alone.
Well, so I feel it.
Ciao
.