To Destroy, To Build
mortally wounded, a soldier writhes,
crawls bloody on the bloodied earth
behind a boulder, a sniper takes aim again
to finish off a task so bereft of mirth
as worker ants lug hefty loads around lumps
of earth and boulder splinters
to rebuild an anthill crushed by bloodstained
boots of the slain and the slayers.
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