Being Nemesis (old thread)

[dukealien]

Being Nemesis (FPV)


Tankists must despise and fear
drone-pilots lurking, never near,
far more than their ancestral knights
had need to dread an archer’s flights
of puny arrows: sword and spear
could stoop and slay from armored gear.

But now game console driven drones
fly pitiless, torch buttoned bones
of tank crew members, turrets popped
by top-attacking missiles dropped
against invaders.  Users must
lie low to kill: their cause is just.

Then Nemesis divides to leave
drone-victims for both sides to grieve.