Commanding The Flood

Water takes on form

determined by the container

Its main characteristic

forever to move downward

An army’s defenses 

should act like water

Filling in the empty spaces

of the attacker’s weakness

Where mind and spirit meet

darkness turns to daylight

Once you luminate the battlefield  

you can counter at any time

When your will pierces

the enemy’s fear and turns it against them

You swallow their spirit

digesting it whole

Advancing as one

withdrawing as one

Victory of great consequence

knows no other way

Winning flows in torrents

 through the heart of the commander

Whose soldiers fight through strength of hand

—in currents to define

(Dreamsleep: November, 2023)