Performing the task at hand, it goes about its business making a barely audible swishing sound punctuated with a tap. The sound is rhythmic, keeping in time with its user and charge. A tool of sorts it becomes a necessary evil to its owner, resented yet practical.

Its stark white appearance, greatly identified by all it approaches, elicits a paradoxical reaction with whom it encounters. Sometimes portrayed as a tool of the helpless and for others, a gift of independence and self reliance. Its perception is truly in the eye of the beholder and yet it remains elusive to the one who grasps it.

The slender reach notifies, when properly executed, its handler of obstacles ahead that may be of harm. It too allows what may be that obstacle, time to clear itself. Either way, this piece of equipment that is not wanted yet is needed, will form a close bond with the one using it, after all, it is there not only to serve but to protect as well.

Guess what I am….