The enfilade is over
And bodies lie strewn
Across the battlefield
Like broken bottles
Leaking last regrets
You have cut me down
Your machine gun wit
And explosive rejoinders
Creating a no man’s land
Where I lie fractured.
For more of my poetry, check out Poetry for the Sad, Lonely and Hopelessly Endangered and The All or the Nothing, available in print or e-book formats.
Ooh! Devastated by a warlike love.
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Story of my life lol 😉
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