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A War To Be Won
Happiness is victory
Though I won't win every battle
I will win the war.
Wednesday 3rd March 2021 1:48 am
Senshi (戦士)
My love is a two-edged weapon, wielded by insecurity and strikes with fear.
Akin to Pandora’s pithos, it remained concealed; destruction would only come of openly sharing it to the outside world.
My heart is shielded, once scarred by mistrust, now a lone vessel playing a broken melody looped:
Thump...thump...thump.
Just as soldiers march through wet trenches in p...
Tuesday 16th February 2021 1:15 pm
Check the bolt Falklands Two.
Check the bolt Falklands Two.
Check the bolt
For action
Hands slip and slide
Mud and sweat
Sweat and mud
“Alright mate”
“Aye”
“Alright mate”
“Aye”
“We’ll be alright”
“Aye”
Said a thousand times
a thousand times
“Alright mate”
“Aye”
Check the bayonet
Check the bolt
Check the mag.
Fucking hands
Shake
And sweat
Fucking ...
Tuesday 16th February 2021 10:58 am
Ah' Chris mate. 8th June 1982. Falklands One
Ah' Chris mate. 8th June 1982. Falklands One
Ah’ Chris mate,
What a fate,
We’d laughed
and cavorted
Before the fun.
I’d had sex
In Pompey
And lots of rum.
It’d take a lot
To make us run.
You in your engine room
Me in mine.
All seemed well
All seemed fine.
Your ship
Was knightly
Mine was grey.
As we both looked
Out on that mis...
Tuesday 16th February 2021 10:54 am
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