Left And Lost Comments

This could have become a poem of despair. If certain lines would be crossed out, it would be read as despairing. And the theme both of the poem as it stands and the alternative despairing one is: You Did This To Yourselves. That theme of our responsibility for what the world has become cuts through the body of your poem like a searing passage for strings in a symphony. Your poem finds HIDDEN ENERGIES which restore both an awareness of COMMUNITY and THE STAIRWELL OF PRAYER. The presence of CHERUBS in the last line shows we are no longer LEFT AND ALONE. But have we really deserved this divine rescue at the end? I don't want an answer to that question!