FOOL YOURSELF

FOOL YOURSELF

don’t fool yourself
you are

not worth anything
not according to
this system
of reckoning

able to be given meaning
taken into
consideration
except perhaps
as casualty, as fatality,
statistic to be loaded into
collateral damage battle
assessment to
figure out the balance
of power
how our beautiful law
of attrition is
shaping up,
       working out

how your slaughter night
be the absolute difference
between defeat
and victory

and
with victory
absolute vindication,
proof that we are fighting
on the side of God