This is a letter of a father to a son on a forlorn wintry day while staring out of the window of his house as the snowflakes fell. He had just been foreclosed on this piece of property which he had spent his whole life on because he had fallen behind on his mortgage. He only had a couple of hours to stay in it before the agents of the law came to implement the directives of the court. He lived all alone. His wife was long dead and his only son was somewhere in Africa fighting a war that was not his.
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your style write! ! ! Gems are set together for an effect, a lesson to many! ! ! thanks for the poets notes that helped much in contextualizing it! ! !
Reading this poem for the second time. I can say for I have a better understanding.