Archive for January 28th, 2008
The Battle of Wind and Rain
January 28th, 2008 Posted 6:44 pm
Rain kisses the sea
From gray to gray it falls.
The wind is flying free
The thunder, across sky, calls.
The sun slices through the cloud
As a maestro stopping a song;
The sky is now a holey shroud
With streams of sun shooting down.
The debris upon the shore
Litters up the tide.
The water pulls up ever more
From the darkness inside.
So suddenly it came and went
A ghost that wreaked its havoc.
Perhaps another reason lies
Behind the silver horizon line
That tells a different story
Beyond the wind and rain.
Somewhere beyond the human eye
Someone started a petty fight.
But no one remembers the reason why,
Or who was to blame for their plight.
One attacked with bullets of rain
The other with cannons of wind.
Despite the number of casualties made
Not enough fell to cause the war’s end.
But finally the losing side
Came up with something bold and daft
And grayed the skies to hide the surprise
Of their plan of attack.
They struck down beams of energy,
A flash with each drum beat
And shot down the opposing team
With bombs of smoke and heat.
When all was done the losing side
Ended up victorious.
The other side could not stand
The strength of the new weapon.
So now the winning side that lost
Are a mess of broken ships.
Their ships were swept out to shore
To clean up all the mess
And now we get to see the war
As flotsam and some jetsum.
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