Commanding The Flood

Water takes on form determined by the container Its main characteristic forever to move downward An army’s defenses should act like water Filling in the empty spaces of the attacker’s weakness Where mind and spirit meet darkness turns to daylight Once you luminate the battlefield you can counter at any time When your will pierces the enemy’s fear and turns it against them You swallow their spirit digesting it whole Advancing as one withdrawing as one Victory of great consequence knows no other way Winning flows in torrents through the heart of the commander Whose soldiers fight through strength of hand —in currents to define (Dreamsleep: November, 2023)