Clash

And when we are
just laying here before 
or after what we
do do best there’s
this silence it’s the 
same not heard emptiness 
as that moment just 
before or recently after 
the clash of hordes
of men intent on 
the defending or taking 
of what’s rightfully theirs 
one brings hope and 
the other lays waste
but it’s the silence 
the gap where the 
image of triumph or 
defeat and not the 
in-between that excites men
and it excites us