In time
Others will fall here
Where you have fallen
We will see many more
But it seems so very early
For you to concede your post
Yet you let down your guard
And here you are
So perhaps explain
In this unexpected fall
In this unexpected interchange
What it was you hoped to gain
When you so suddenly fell by my side
Causing me to glare
Not at you in your every averageness
But at that pinhole ripping through your shield
Allowing in the enemy
Now aimed squarely at my forehead
Don’t look at me
As you lay there silently
You discarded mitten
Look up instead
To your brothers
And sisters in the sky
They all gaze down on you
And slowly
Shake their heads
I think they whisper about you
In this oppressive air
Did you expect
Your average color
Yellow underside exposed
To impress me?
In this time
And on this site
You
You false prophet
Of the fall
Of the changing of the guard
I’ve seen this before
In my years
And I will not be fooled
So here I will go
And continue to sweat