We could use that old icebreaker
Mixed with vodka, gin, and juice;
In this warfare I’m a slacker,
And your terms define the truce.
Yet you’re making no advances
Having seen my troops retreat.
I refuse to play defenses
Any more before your feet.
Pour yourself a glass of liquor,
Drink it in a single shot.
Maybe then I’ll spot some vigor
In your eyes bored and bloodshot.
Did you ever care to notice
The belligerents around?
Were you ever moved by stories
Of my raging battleground?
God knows I have spared no effort
Disillusioning myself,
I have grown to be an abbot
Down the pit in which I dwell.
On my heart, aligned like trenches,
Scars still form your name ablaze
Till there comes someone who quenches
Every flame within my gaze.