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The Battlefield (Free verse) by T. Becquerel
I am a battlefield,
Scoured and lifeless by countless, pointless
rejection.
Soldiers of right and wrong
Clash on starry-eyed fronts of my
sporadic expression.
The havoc they impose
Motivates a romanticism of
construction.
On one side the duty
Is to forge and contain the perfect
coalition
Between that which is I
And the impossible objective of
perfection.
She is the only being
Who can bring me the euphoria of
concession,
The happiness of thought,
And freedom from the eyes of
disassociation.
But the other army
Forcefully reminds of accidental
destruction.
For she might bring nothing
But darkness of morning and
reasoned oblivion.
During the scrimmaging
I long for the day when she
will bring extrication
From battle which soldiers
Embroil at the expense
of my concentration.
Both armies? commanders,
Like A. Nevsky or Blucher
with Acre?s persuasion,
Barely hold ground through fog.
Front lines
between right and wrong are in immersion.
Battle has not been won.
Neither side is conscious of the true situation.
For as men die with
heart,
No man sees one army as both in combination.
In circles they
travel,
Never edified of horrid extermination.
As they destroy
themselves
I still do not know what they are fighting for.
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Posted: March 16, 2002 1:17 AM PST; Last modified: March 16, 2002 1:17 AM PST
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