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….