Footprints in the sands of time

I've just found an interesting article from the Poetry Foundation through a link from Neil Gaiman's blog.

It's about that ubiquitous and ever-recited poem of a man who has a dream that he and God are walking along the beach. When the man asks why sometimes there is one set of footprints and other times there are two, God says he has been carrying him through his struggles.

Apparently there are three people that think they wrote it.

Well, I think it's interesting: [Link]