Blood Bother

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provoke a sleeping beast

at your peril, it won’t 

let you do it twice,

stealing its food may go

unnoticed only once,

when careless audacity

impersonates bravery

usually blood gets spilt,

some governments

misinterpret enthusiasm 

for actual capability,

this miscalculation is 

the preface to bloodshed 

on a cataclysmic scale

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© Graham R Sherwood 11/25