Bloodletting - Spencer Radcliffe

Spring was a time for change

What else can be accomplished in the time that it takes birdsong to reach coda?

Bloodletting on the side of a stream

Ice was swirling in the soda like a mid-summer night’s dream

But it- it was only Spring

Spring was a time for war

The kind where no-one even asks what they started fighting for

Senseless violence and all the bloodshed

Missiles dancing in the clouds that waterboarded roofs below

Peace and love were nice while they lasted, but now its time to lock and load

Spring is done, Summer’s begun

Lets everyone collapse under the heat of the sun

Spring is done, the battle’s been won

Everyone survived the unloading of guns