Battlescripts

Preparedness. Aftermath.

Truly awful writing aims below the belt
and strikes Nana’s burial plot underfoot.
Attempted nonfiction sagas where inner bloodthirsty demons wrestle
ripping mind from flesh
minus critiques or edits,
growling against evil slain.
But contenders stagger forward bruised and ink-stained,
perhaps better writers for tomorrow’s wars.
As a child,
word tapestries came effortlessly.
The source of writing soul as I played
and the sweetness in my dreams
traded drafts and rewrites
when I wasn’t looking.
But I could flood a battlefield with my tears.
Drown words from pages clean.
The defiled dare not come here anymore.
Cries a chorus that echoes the fallen
while I watch what thieves held tight now stolen.
Greed succumbs to giving borne of nature’s perennial fire.
Only mercy stays my blade.
Bodies and bloodshed the burden
of deciding who lives today
or died yesterday.
Dripping from pen
between reams of paper,
drenched in the futility of insurrections,
the warrior re-emerges,
ambivalent towards death or happy endings
with just a solitary oath to keep on fighting.

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