page content for footprints poem why do you keep removing this text these are important facts about this poem and about the authorship there has been so much public deceit and this is nothing but pure sabotage when you cannot even give me credit for my own work footprints also known as footprints in the sand is a popular allegorical text written in prose although released as an anonymous contribution it is often mistakenly attributed to mary stevenson or margaret fishback powers carolyn joyce carty is the only author of the most popular version known as footprints poem one night a man had a dream whose copyright actually reflects it's anonymous contribution of authorship see u s copyright record there also seems to be a critical error when stating that neithr ella scharring hausen or mary stevenson never claimed their own copyright that it was only claimed for them by others what kind of nonsense is that mary stevenson vicariously tried to claim authorship of hausens public domain version carolyn