In all the shades of clouds of man,
that innocuously transverse this land,
gladsome in empty worry,
no hurtle, hustle, lust or scurry,
‘til a deepening darkening
cumulous roars:
And from under uniformed cover,
crouched and kneeled,
in the dirty end of an unwashed field,
their valoured pin is bored; revealed.
And as the other shades melt away,
those scourged, steeled, armed for the fray,
lie sectioned in their roulette line,
praying for gold in a diamond mine,
And harms a game
like thrown dice;
No rules of form.
For only the hardness felt within,
the jagged price of their driving pin,
Wields those clouds, towards their win.