This collection loosely accompanies the previous volume called "Love." Although the subject is considerably more grim here, the Author molds the sadness through adroit combination of ethos and pathos of the grim circumstance in order to achieve the catharsis of purifying the Heart and the Mind of the bereaved and grieving. Some poems have meaningful political subtext, others are personally-minded, or underscore the author's symbolic and philosophical denotation and purpose. The leitmotif of death and suffering intertwines and connects them all. Nevertheless, the effect most of these lines is far from that of a dejected, depressive or melancholy soul complaining to the world. In the author's hand, the sadness is molded, transformed, fashioned and reproduced on the obverse side - as blissful acceptance of our Human Condition.