You are a gentleman and a scholar @clayboyn sir! Love the poem..."fighting our descent" reminds me of something a guest speaker said to us when I was in junior high...he was an addict and the speech was to dissuade us from trying and experimenting with drugs...he said that one night he was so out of it that he was lying on the grass looking into the stars and felt he had to grab onto the grass so he wouldn't fall into the sky. It was an image that has never left me...you just brought me back to that same feeling with your words. Can't thank you enough and keep writing and fighting time!