Uncertain Love in a Time of Perpetual War

[dukealien]

This is very fine.  I particularly like the division between material and spiritual at the break between S2 and S3.  And subtleties like "it's me that feels unwelcome," which at first glance looks like a commonplace departure from high grammar (which would say, "it's I that feel unwelcome") but making "me" the object it's also unwelcoming by the Other.  (Anyway, that's how it looked to me on second reading.)

"[B]oor" at the end is a nice, destabilizing touch - the speaker is concerned with being unsocialized more than (or as much as) unloved.  Uncertainty, indeed!  And all those ghosts trying to get in through the door with him.