What might it take to lay down my sword?
When I’ve finished the cutting and slashing,
or been slashed a bunch?
When I’ve laid lots of waste and my soul is sated?
Or when I lift my eyes and see
I am in a vast rubble pile?
What might it take to lay down my sword?
When I see that all your supporters and cronies are finally gone,
leaving you to fend solo, in a corner, a caged animal?
Or when I am the soloist in the only solitary cave I can find?
When the avalanche of death is on you with
sickle-man at the head of the rubble on a spree?
Or rather charging at me…or both as much?
What might it take to lay down my sword?
Maybe when we both are barely standing,
sweat pouring,
lungs heaving in violent hurricane waves,
leaning hard on said swords.
We stare, we stagger, swagger gone
Perhaps we should have thought this through
Maybe now is the right time
I’ll lose my head, but I’ve lost it already
Perry's Randomness 