Knives and Intention

Drawn with anger,
Drawn with bitterness,
To attack, hurt and possibly kill,
He doesn't want to play the second fiddle,
He wants to be at the helm of affairs,
To be unseated is to be irrelevant,
To have a rival is to be partly significant,  
All eyes must look up to him,
All obeisance must be accrued to him,
He is ready to hew 
any tree that stands beside,
He is ready to fight and restrain,         
Forgetting that his end lies in wait,
His fall, like a crashing cymbal.




June 3, 2022.
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June 6, 2022 at 5:20 AM
The haughty bully always crashes in the end - well done
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