Contradictory circumstances and motivations, realized and unrealized, are prevalent in each individual's determination to be or not to be a catalyst for himself and humanity. The small segregated town of Crestmont, depicted through poetic revelations during and after the Great Depression, captures in realistic detail the struggles of a people relegated to barely existing in a socio-political economic environment enriched by the woes and disparaging nuances of a community barely surviving in the midst of surrounding upper class realities. It is best described as indecent exposure to shattered destinies of hopelessness, as nearly impoverished citizens of primarily African American descent patiently managed to survive the irregularities of a society conditioned to ignore hidden premises of a mindset which sublimated, and rationalized the negatives associated with ongoing slave mentalities exhibited by the larger surrounding communities. Small wonder any Crestmont citizen survived the continuous, vicious, silent debilitating roaring in the lion's den.