Bar Staff

Proud and sleek as a viking longship

she cuts through the roiling waves of customers,

searching both sides for abandoned glasses

then back in her wash to the wash.

No war lasts forever.

One side wins or all sides tire.

Righteous causes sever

loving feelings and hates expire.

No love lasts forever

if love is passion. Passion wanes.

Love and war were ever

struggles ending unsure who gains.