Exchange Of Fire

Feel the loathing
Brace for attack
Load up on armour
Front to back

This added protection
Sealed in tight
Still room to maneuver
Ready to fight

Eyes always rotating
Fitfully aware
Fear of anticipation
Always worse than the scare

Sweating profusely
The heat always rising
The unsteady nerves
The glare disguising

The quiet unsettling
The endless waiting
Impatience contagious
Strategists debating

Then finding a moment
Focus unblinking
Locked on target
Without even thinking

And so it begins
This exchange of fire
The piercing of wounds
A metallic choir

Ripping through boundaries
Slicing through fraud
Annihilating calvaries
Exposing the flawed

A cluttered wasteland
Bathed in red
No space untainted
Devastation spread

No purpose served
No objective achieved
A weak rationale
We were all deceived

Dennis Earl
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Sunday, July 30, 2023
10:53 p.m.

Functioning Normally

Thinking perversely
Smiling diabolically
Plotting continually
Laughing uncontrollably

Invalidated immediately
Shut down completely
Rejected entirely
Vanquished decisively

Ignored automatically
Blocked indefinitely
Protected systematically
Deleted permanently

Scheming covertly
Lying repeatedly
Acting compulsively
Bombing miserably

Cleansing thoroughly
Forgotten instantly
Measuring carefully
Calculating constantly

Avoiding meticulously
Rinsing thoroughly
Denying categorically
Functioning normally

Dennis Earl
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Sunday, July 2, 2023
2:43 a.m.