War

wôr

noun – a state of armed conflict between different countries or different groups within a country.
verb – engage in a war.

my beloved is

my beloved is 
not the only reaper who 
stalks this battlefield

the guns fall silent 
and i can see a girl with 
laughter in her eyes

my bayonet seeks 
a heart also crafted in 
the image of god

my donkey army 
will defeat lions because 
i am no donkey

the glory of war 
drowns the shrieks of the wounded 
in lethal moonshine

this matchless valor 
in bloody consecration  
of my shattered land

artillery reaps 
a bumper crop of corpses 
under brutal rain

i am powerless 
before machine gun bullets 
and beautiful girls

life and death conjoin
amid the clatter of the 
iron dice of war

fight monsters with care 
lest you become the object 
you seek to destroy