Echoing retribution
Attrition
Convolution

Do you know
Who you are fighting?
Or is just the
Advertising and lighting?

On grand scales you contort
The empty grounds
Of your forts

Scorched earth are the embers
Upon which you plant
A foundation to hunger
For greed, hate and self absorption

Rivers that flow, dowse us
In gasoline and words
To flare the conflict ever brighter

A powder keg
That’ll make the world’s load
Ultimately lighter
If the dissent
Is where all our stories end