SOME OF US HAD TO WORK OUR ASSES OFF TO GET WHERE WE ARE BUT THAT IS NO EXCUSE FOR FORGETTING THOSE WHO DO NOT HAVE THE OPPORTUNITIES THAT WE WERE PRESENTED WITH.

I'm going to guess that you are writing a parable here about how the greedy rich are sacrificing the planet while the poor watch and covet what the rich have.

Ron

I am guessing readers will have difficulty forming a response to this one, Steven. I am having that difficulty and enjoying the challenge and squeeze of that. I'll just say what it makes me feel: (that's what it's all about anyway) -- I feel the image is shocking and sublime in the way of being impressively powerful and terrible at the same time. That creates the setting for the stage of your poem, an equally powerful depiction of that very posted image's effect upon the observer. Such polarities being illuminated in three short stanzas produced a wave of response in me. Perhaps within the body of "The Sacrifice" you have spelled out the crux of The Human Condition. So has the art piece, for me. Staggeringly effective. ~~ Diana