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Well done, soldier. You: Well done, soldier. You receive a citation of completing this parrticular mission.

This is beautifully worded: This is beautifully worded and elegantly lined. I love that they that sleep peacefully are freed of Forever's teardrops and fire's payment. Such strong contrasts, e.g. the winter of destiny, et al. Thanks for sharing.

Yes, we'd each do best to: ..rant inwards, first. Progress begins with self awareness.

I'm guilty of many things: I'm guilty of many things myself.  I do try to get coffee at places that stop using styrofoam cups and order food from places that abstain from it.  It's not an exact science but I try to recycle and reuse as much as possible.

As of April of this year, I: As of April of this year, I have been reading Poetry for half a century (the first two years, compulsory; the rest, gladly voluntarily), but very few Poets have actually shaken my soul.  Many impress my mind, but only the chosen few reach my soul.  This poem puts you among that chosen few.  This poem is, and is going to continue to be, one of the greatest poems ever posted at PostPoems.  Your poem will minister to people you may never meet, and of whom you may never know, but on the great Day of Reckoning, you will see the great gppd that it will have done by that time.  I am often an unpleasant old coot, a little too stubborn, and a little too smug, but I can recognize great Poetry when I read it.  During my undergrad years, I was privileged to study the greatness of Poets long gone---Eliot, Stevens, and the greatest iof them all, Vergil.  This prepared me (although I did not foresee it then) for PostPoems, where I have seen the magnificent greatness of living Poets---like Patriciajj, and now, yourself.  Although I am probably in the final "go around" of my life, due to my medical problems, I thank God (and let me say it again, I thank GOD) for the privilege of being alive today to read this poem.  A casual reader may think this comment may be just a string of superlatives; but a casual reader will not fully appreciate your Poem, which demands the best that the reader can bring to it.  They told me, and they still tell me, that Vergil's great poetic gift was to describe the pathos of life and how to deal with it---his line, Sunt lacrimae rerum---reminds us that there are tears for things, and that we should accept that and deal with it, as Aeneas dealt with the horrible destruction of Troy.  Your poem enters, and enters successfully, that realm that Vergil charted so well two thousand years ago, and I applaud you for it, and I thank you for sharing with us this poem, this magnificent and towering literary achievement!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Your apology I hold dear to my heart Starward: I'm not offended by your commenets on my poems, I see you and respect your thoughts on my work!