Cold Compress

Wake
To find God’s failed master plan
Abandoning these defences
As the charging enemy
Bears down
With a mighty force
Worthy of any victor.

The Commander in Chief
Deserting
Taking his loyal followers
Out into the wilderness
To turn from heroes into traitors.

Forsaking
A Queen left in solitude
Amid her stretching kingdom
When all she wanted to do
Was compress logic and reason
And haunting images
Into fractured pieces
So tiny
They would pass unnoticed.