No Surprises for the Valiant

“no more wars in the terebinths”
I calmly and politely portend
a stream of my anxiety
issues forward like a gospel of cheating spies,
spies that cannot be honest
and where no mountains whisper her name,
our rejoinder, our cause for fame
our negated knighthood in the dove’s
failing disposition

There are two meters here
One for the door, and one for the brave