[... Huh, now that he thinks about it, that was true... Or at least, it sounds like it could be true. No one's ever told him he could be his worst critic - they only told him when he did something wrong or right.]

... You're right.

[And he did somehow get a response back. If it had really been her who answered, he thinks that she did like it.]

Maybe next time I won't be so quick to ditch my poem. Ah, speaking of poems, I'm supposed to share one, right?