Interesting combination of the influence of current events in the middles eastdisplaced by (uninvested guests inviting us to leave by courtesy of their addresses.) , and the idea damaged good spoken about in one of my own recent poem (living proof that there is life after death).

Oops...corrected...Interesting combination of the influence of current events in the middle east (displaced by uninvested guests inviting us to leave by courtesy of their addresses.), and the idea of damaged good spoken about in one of my recent poem (living proof that there is life after death).

From a human standpoint the poem addresses the disparate condition of mankind which appears always to divide. I choose to Hope! Thought challenging poem.

All opposition thwarted. All barriers overcome. All in due time; and the time due can not be known - should not be known - Mysteries level the battlefield. Maybe we died long ago and refuse to believe we've gone on. Maybe.

A lot of grim runs through this, all of it making me consider the human brain and its focus and obsessions, particularly those (news pundits and politicians come to mind) who seem to worship at the feet of self predicted disasters. That last line is pretty haunting as one considers what steps/abstractions we might come up with next. Oh, you do make me think....

I like your use of "sophomoric" here, the way it links (or seems to link) back to its etymological roots, and then twists its way into a more modern double meaning. Though, in this case, all meanings seem to have been rendered abstract, moot, unchallengeable, at least for us plebes caught in this sticky web of, figuratively speaking, statistical morphometrics. But not the case for those who shape these meanings from their own duplicitous motives? Is there a "them" there?

Laura, you never fail to deliver! *****STELLAR*****