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Oh, wow!  I have been reading: Oh, wow!  I have been reading Poetry for fifty years, as of this past April, and in that time, I have allowed only a few poems to have the kind of effect this Poem has had on me this morning. First, as a Poet, let me commend and applaud your very skilled use of both metaphor and simile to direct, focus, and enhance the emotional impact of this Poem on the reader.  To me, this is a textbook perfect example, and if I were teaching a class on Poetry, this would be required reading.  And the metaphors and similes are deployed naturally, almost casually, as if emerging from an authentic conversation (and they may have, I don't know the Poem's provenance).   As a son who had problems with my mother, I certainly can relate to the Poem's historical presentation.  My own mother---for reasons no one has ever been able to explain---did a lot to undercut or sabatoge my ambitions (rather they were academic, social, or romantic).  She and my father adopted me---I was not their birth-child---but she seemed almost obsessive about embarrassing me.  (An example---during the summer of 1979, when I spent the entire college break with my sweetheart and my sweetheart's parents in a small town on the other side of our state, my mother sent a letter ahead, explaining to the parents what an unpleasant and inconsiderate person I was, and that she fully expected they would find my presence difficult.) Just by coincidence, while browsing the internet today. I happened upon an article about the ancient Poet Vergil's first book of Poetry.  I have not had a chance to read it yet, but the title suggested that Vergil's Poems in that book dealt primarily with the subject of solitude, and of being alone.  I think your Poem stands in that tradition; and when any poem can stand with Vergil's, that is a mighty fine place to be.