this

T͟His

pronoun – used to identify a specific person or thing close at hand or being indicated or experienced.

this new confidence

this new confidence 
is no more likely valid 
than my past mistakes

this queer sibilance 
this dread swarming menace of 
iron on the wing

the focus i bring 
to this practice is the key 
to every practice

my beloved is 
not the only reaper who 
stalks this battlefield

this traffic is a 
demented video game 
with only one life

there are no heroes
there is only this awful
noble decision

if i want to raise 
a new life from old ashes 
i must burn this one

this vain artifice 
holds me ever hostage to 
my better judgment

this matchless valor 
in bloody consecration  
of my shattered land

this young soldier weighs 
ninety-eight pounds soaking wet 
fifty of them heart