Single Breath

There’s a fight inside I’m bound to lose,
With my neck wound round by a noose.
Four boundaries bind me to this battle,
My hands tied; my feet in shackles.

A thundering jolt delivered to jaw,
Crashing me to the concrete floor.
All at once I blasted a counter blow,
My rival mimed a painful crow.

Gasping for air as my stomach is kicked,
I mirror pain that she inflicts,
My raging feet do punt her abdomen;
Kick for kick, can anyone win?

Familiarity I cannot place,
Within the features of her face.
But there is no second to take a pause,
Both are fueled by a raging cause.

What the cause is I can no longer say,
For long years we have raged today.
Finally she hangs me up by the neck,
Her feet hanging off of the deck.

Sole woman suspends above this cold floor,
An end to the long endless war.
And so we have both won each other’s deaths.
Sorrow sinks with a single breath.