All I honestly feel right now is a deep sense of compassion for all in that experience; your poetic description is a strong one socrates. thanks for sharing

socrates44,

I am in awe of your talent for verbally expressing much of 'life' as it exists in todays world.

It is bad enough to gaze into the expressionless eyes of adults ~ who for a multiude of reasons ~ have ceased to feel. For some it is lonliness; for others it might be pain; and for many it most likely is drugs.

That is terrible.
But to look into the eyes of children ~ many very young ~ and see blank expressions on their young faces is a travesty. They are not here. That freightening look of emptiness refected in their eyes is like gazing into the depths of hell.

I so glad that someone brought this poem back.
Thank you for sharing.

Mady

Your poem says so much of what I feel about the world and its people in recent years and I despair that I have ignored reading or listening to insightful meaningful items that are out there. . ... not really, just avoided the issue.

After spending 5 weeks away where a poetry reading was obligatory every night it is not easy to sit back with what has been eye-opening on that front on my return.