Eternity

Reflection showing the dearth of a man
Endless struggles, fraught with steel
Galanty show; war the shadow of Man
Remorseless thief, his heart did it steal
Ecdysiast, he performs for Death
This hero; immortalized on stationery
Still daily does he relive every death

Lost friends; bodies forever stationary
Ichnite of friends on his heart’s atlas
Knot of emotions, without rein
Eternal burden, a model of Atlas

Water in his eyes, a ceaseless rain
Acerbic truths, recalcitrant of time
Remorseful umbrage at the sight

At hands, bloody as Father Time
Rage unbridled at the chosen site
Essence of men, contentious by nature

Ensconced in shame, from words to incite
To a common ground; Mother Nature
Equanimity in death, infelicitous insight
Residing throughout sands of time, Cancer
Neophobia rampant as war becomes rote
Anathema to joy, an incurable cancer
Litany of regrets was all he wrote