My battleground
March 7, 2013
As the generals gather around the recon photos
the orange fires show brightly against the darkness surrounding them.
The largest, against the edge of the territory, burning
almost white hot at its center;
the other three the guerillas set
as the took the highway to newer playgrounds
marking their route off this field to who knows where!
The men have the tools and skills they need to reduce the fires
and snuff them, like a modern day Red Adair stopping a blown out well-
but the other anarchist insipidly destroying the rest of the territory
making it unlivable; unusable-a wasteland
as it slowly advances means no matter how much they reduce the fires
their ultimate tool to snuff those fires could destroy some of the little
arable territory left!
So they plan, measure and plan some more...
while I wait, fingers crossed hoping
that this battle they are fighting to save my lungs from cancer
doesn't let Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis take a stronger hold
and shorten my life even more!
alan
As the generals gather around the recon photos
the orange fires show brightly against the darkness surrounding them.
The largest, against the edge of the territory, burning
almost white hot at its center;
the other three the guerillas set
as the took the highway to newer playgrounds
marking their route off this field to who knows where!
The men have the tools and skills they need to reduce the fires
and snuff them, like a modern day Red Adair stopping a blown out well-
but the other anarchist insipidly destroying the rest of the territory
making it unlivable; unusable-a wasteland
as it slowly advances means no matter how much they reduce the fires
their ultimate tool to snuff those fires could destroy some of the little
arable territory left!
So they plan, measure and plan some more...
while I wait, fingers crossed hoping
that this battle they are fighting to save my lungs from cancer
doesn't let Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis take a stronger hold
and shorten my life even more!
alan
contemplative
disappointed
hopeful