Enemy Within

May we not allow 

the enemy to define us,

to feed at the trough

of our own fear,

the divisions

that have already conquered us.

May we instead define ourselves,

by uniting ourselves

by the only means necessary:

Love.

The enemy is at our gate

anticipating our collapse;

but they are mere vultures.

They wait and circle patiently,

anticipating that our destruction is near.

The enemy within our gate

the one we fail to recognize,

is well within our own ranks,

even within our own being.

The enemy within

empowers those without,

those at the gate.

Conquer the enemy within,

and those at the gate will dissipate,

as there will be nothing left

to anticipate.

So long as we are divided,

So long as there is

jealousy, envy, strife

and quarreling

among us,

we are conquered already,

and those at our borders

will wait

to finish the work of desolation

that has already conquered us.