You've got the monopoly on snarky summaries! I like the summary for this one as well as for the one about embraces...

There wasn't quite rhythm in the first stanza.

"Lofty expectations are the ones that make us cry
While the desolate ones eat us up from inside" So true.

"For idealism becomes what we want it to most –
Idealism within ourselves and without the world,
Idealism with a dream and without success due," Interesting. I like that first line--intelligent.

Why are two stanzas in quotes?

I love "Destruction by creation for creation’s creation itself,
Tales told of tales told by the prophets of old,
Fear of fear itself".

There are some very deft phrases here, but the rhythm needs work.

It may have been Frank Herbert who said that a big part of a human's nature comes from the shock of being born...this poem reminded me of that. I'm glad that you were interested by that theme just like I was.