I like this piece. Looking around us I question how many see what we have lost in the past few years. Not via politics. We have lost our virginity or as you say our youth. It has been lost in many other countries via war. But here only those spending time in the burial ground feel war. For the rest it just another piece of news. But lost youth was born in Vietnam, Africa, Bosnia, and the Middle East. For us it the loss on Wall Street, and its affect on the economy. Then the oil spill and a clean far closer than Alaska. One that we will be forced to see the consequences of up close and personal. Good write guys.

The reflection may be skewed but it conveys a realism associated with experience. The face may be young but experience has made it look older. The words mesh well in the piece and the voices in the collab are seamless.

Great image to start out and then what you do with it is very cool. 6th stanza my fav - reflections of souls - that always gets me. Then there is that rainbow flying in from the imagination of two imaginative writers. I agree with Max, the collaboration is absolutely seamless, but it was nice to know that two people wrote this - to see what you could do with it. You done GOOD! Thanks.