Love and Lamentation is a heavily-laden emotional collection of thoughts and feelings. Charles Omere expertly fabricates his own reality - past and present - into poems that explore the depth of humanity's ability to identify with the fleeting nature of those emotions that define us the most. It is a gathering of light and dark things flowing from a deeper part of us; poem by poem, like nervous musical notes, the reader is subconsciously led into familiar stream of events and situations that surprisingly provoke feelings of déjà vu.