Emotions at War

And they come for us

Like foot soldiers

Banded at the arm

Hurling cloying obscenities 

Like shuriken 

To dislodge us 

Swiftly, from each other

These fears

Dressed in the skins

Of love-aversed lions 

Appealing in semblance to reason

But they only feign sincerity

As they dance their intimidating

Hakka to hasten the sway of our resolve

They berate us, these fallacies

That portent dire need

That demand attention

Because they matter

Not in reality

And still less for immediacy’s sake

Excuses created in the minds

Of the lesser committed

Begging us questions 

That we dare not contend with

But, by our strength,

We stand atop their yielded mass

To behold a horizon 

That champions this past

And we smile

Your eyes, indelibly etched

In my soul

Mine peering hopelessly lost

Into the ocean of your charm 

Loving, needing, wanting 

To be held,

Sweetly in your enduring regard

And these emotions that I feel

I unleash

As sentries sworn to defend

To quell the uprisings 

Of the veritable and false 

foes that come against us

Be of great courage

For in this affray, 

We shall not fall.