Wonderful work! 5/5 You express emotion much better than I ever could!

This poem is, to me, a Christ like echo voice from the reflected experience of the Angel within us all...This, too, is the tragedy of the soldier manchild seeing through the earthly theater to his own painful, inner Spiritual dichotomy and struggling, honestly, to communicate his insight...This is the story of how, one at a time, we all wake up at the bottom and begin climbing upward because it is the only way to go now.....and even more than all that...

This is a beautiful piece of work....BTW...I have long thought there should be a category called "deep"...;-)
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In other news:..6th stanza, first line...I think you need the word..to...as in..'just to be me'.....

Peace.

The words flow so perfectly and I felt breathless after reading this intense poem... You potray depths of emotion and amazing talent..

I'm sick of this place into which I've been hurled
I'm sick of reputation; I'm sick of this world
I don't know how; I never will
How to be the hero when I'm designed to kill

Wow! Beautifully expressed frustration...