A Sword is a Defensive Weapon

A Sword is a Defensive Weapon

A Poem by Reeling and Writhing
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You use weapons when you're being attacked. Who would attack you?

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A sword is a defensive weapon.

You use weapons when you’re being attacked.

They attack when they think they’ll be hurt.

And of course they think that; you’re holding a sword.

 

Attack and defense are similar;

Death is the optimal result.

Killing is the ultimate attack and the primal defense.

Dying is the ultimate defense.

 

Both end in blackness;

Black as the anvil that made your sword.

Maybe your blackness will be an anvil

For someone else’s sword.

 

Maybe it’ll be mine.

© 2018 Reeling and Writhing


Author's Note

Reeling and Writhing
Photo by Kierra Alexandra: @pxsitive._.thxughts
By Reeling and Writhing: @reeling_and_writhing

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Added on January 19, 2018
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Reeling and Writhing
Reeling and Writhing

Calgary, Alberta, Canada



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