Amazing and brilliant synopsis of the human condition, Charlie -- I definitely look forward to reading more of your work in the new year; I've made it one of my resolutions. ;)

After the fourth reading aloud, I felt as if I was getting behind your eyeballs a bit, taking in a scene, imagining the way charliepoet does, but of course, that's not possible. So I just went off to my own archeological site and dug there. Teilhard de Chardin has nothing on you, my friend.

Oh, very sad, Charlie... bless your soul. I feel you are identifying astutely with all the families affected by our seemingly senseless and godless wars. The scenes painted here touch the core...

There's a definite pensive sadness to this poem, and it affected me greatly. Thank you so much for sharing!

Ah Charlie...such sadness conveyed so eloquently...though there is pain in the telling, I am glad that you have never retreated into the disaffected and the apathetic...I would miss your perceptions and insights because they give me more than a moment's pause and a good deal to think upon.

your imagination and ability to insert proper nouns into poems with this much mystery and possible interpretations sets you a cloud above the rest...in my opinion. i still am comfortable saying, your poems...your works like this one make you one of the mainstays of this website. excellent my friend.