I have eaten all your brothers; you're the only one that's left. The last soldier for the slaughter. Your last moments before death.
I'm a man made in God's image, You're a nut born in a field. And the trick to your undoing is the ***** inside your shield.
So my hand descends from heaven and it lifts you to the sky. Then I pull but you hold steady, you stand firm although I pry.
You have won oh mighty peanut. 'Gainst this beast survival's bleak. Not from strength did you prevail But by having nothing weak.
I couldn't open a pistachio and for whatever reason that failure was stuck in my mind. I knew there was something symbolic about it that I needed to explore so I wrote this.