we

we are great
warriors, great
fighters, engineers,
we build great
walls, great
bridges, armies,
buildings, battles,
scrawling epics on
great wars and great
soldiers, ourselves; we
stand astride, stand
tall, powerful, we
are geniuses, monuments
of academics, scholarship,
achievement: mighty
our thoughts, grand
our many accomplishments,
our brethren and comrades-
in-arms, we are
superior, celebrated,
great; and so
we must break things,
we must destroy, crush,
overwhelm, consume!
there must be violence
in greatness, as greatness
in resolve, tragedy in
severe decision: oh, we few
so great in action, deed,
thought, word, we are great
in many and all things
accomplished and impossible,
greatness having
expended gentleness; we are
weak fathers all,
weak husbands all,
weak lovers all.
oh, what cost.




dec '09