nemesis

here's to my greatest adversary

the silhouette raising the glass

let's toast to your unholy belligerence

and your gray, compromised honor

your neutral morality

to your endless war with your own

mortality

to your sea of questions

and drops of answers

to your lingering defeats

and pathetic pyrrhic victories

to your roaring rage

and silent pain that could

bury a mountain with all its weight

here's to my nemesis

the smirking terror in the mirror

my shadow raising the glass

as the sun lights upon you like a towering giant

and the dark of the moon makes you ever defiant

one foot in front of the other

as we burn slowly in the flat circle of time

to death

and to life

to rebirth

and back again.