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Conquer me...

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Conquer me, but enjoy yourselves because…

we all love what we cannot understand.
Let this revolution show us the way,
with our pistols held calmly in our hands.

We will devour as much as we can,
with poison inside our mouths of decay,
for we love what we cannot understand.

Will it conquer us?  I know that it can
conquer me.  But please, please rebel today,
with your pistols held calmly in your hands.

Will it conquer you?  I know that it has,
conquered me.  But please love me anyway,
for we love whom we cannot understand.

We will terrorize as much as we can,
destroying lifetimes of neglect today.
Firing pistols, calmly with our hands.

A handsome revolution!  We will stand
for what we believe in: An early grave!
We love best when we cannot understand,
why we hold pistols calmly to our heads.
full title: "conquer me, but enjoy yourselves because..."

this is a Villanelle written in iambic pentameter.

here's an excerpt from an IM conversation i had with my girlfriend that describes what the poem is about:

Karie Dawn 1987 [9:49 P.M.]: are you reading it..or am i supposed to explain now?
BirdCrap911 [9:49 P.M.]: no i just finished reading it
Karie Dawn 1987 [9:49 P.M.]: o ok
BirdCrap911 [9:50 P.M.]: hmm i get lots of things from it
BirdCrap911 [9:50 P.M.]: i think of all sorts of discrimination... racism... homophobia... suicide... gosh i dont know even it makes me think of lots of like battles and stuff like that.
Karie Dawn 1987 [9:51 P.M.]: yeah well..it is about that stuff
BirdCrap911 [9:51 P.M.]: ooh nice
Karie Dawn 1987 [9:52 P.M.]: it's about a corrput leader that got his followers to do everything he wanted even though he backed down and let his opponents conquer him..and his followers loved him so much that they kept on fighting, and they didnt realize until it was too late that there main goal was to win the war for their beloved corrupt leader, and then commit suicide
Karie Dawn 1987 [9:53 P.M.]: even though their leader wasnt willing to kill himself
Karie Dawn 1987 [9:53 P.M.]: the leader was a greedy bastard that wanted everything for himself
Karie Dawn 1987 [9:53 P.M.]: lol
Karie Dawn 1987 [9:53 P.M.]: to think i had all of that in my head while writing it....my first war poem...and i love it
BirdCrap911 [9:54 P.M.]: thats so awesome
BirdCrap911 [9:54 P.M.]: i think its by far one of your strongest poems yet
Karie Dawn 1987 [9:55 P.M.]: it could even be about the war in iraq....and george bush could be the coward of a leader...and it could be about the terrorists and how they are willing to commit suicide for their religious cause, and it could even be about hitler...who thought he was going to lose the war so he killed himself instead of having to face being killed by other people...he couldnt stand failure...and neither could the leader in my poem
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Interesting, has a tinge of truth to it that could be related to present days/situations.