My dear @jedau. Thanks for such touching, heartfelt words. And your connection regarding "Echoes..." just goes to show your incredible ability to piece snippets of information together and construct something great out of it. Honestly, some phenomenal raw talents you got there. Ones I could only wish to possess.

But again, you words are priceless and unforgettable. Actually, this short piece has some personal connotations of a particularly rough period in my life. So the narrator could just as well have been me. Events like this in someone's life can take a person to their absolute limits. That kind of grief is nothing to be waved at lightly, it's horrifying to say the least. But expressing things these experiences through the written word can be therapeutic as well as healing. And the very same thing could be said of "your" words, brother...

Thank you so much, man.