Little Images Comments

Yhis is very tender and infinitely sad, but it's not a personal sadness - O, Woe is Me! - it's an embrace of the sadness of being human because we always love what is dying and must confront loss again and again. It's in my nature and education to see ALL POETS as kindred spirits across time, and the impersonal, universal sadness you express was expressed by Virgil in a line of the AENEID that was once very familiar to people: THERE ARE TEARS FOR ALL THINGS, AND WHAT HUMANS SUFFER TOUCHES ALL HEARTS. Things + Hearts = Earthly Life.