Battle

Look what you've begun

A battle in the doorway I guard

A battle fought by just you and I

Enough to leave humanity scarred.

As terrible as you act

Worse destruction I can bring

We sound shells to silence the hope

Which for years in this valley would ring.

Without thinking of peaceful lives

That fled this grisly mess

We both convince ourselves

That our side is losing less.

Neither of us will concede

And neither of us will win

As we douse each other's sinful fires

With water from the well of sin.