Candy Shop - Day 30

 Three Musketeers

If you fight on the right

side, the legend goes, of God

and histories, your blade

will feel airy, weightless

as Chantilly cream. Even physics

dare not intrude as you win

or die with featherlight justice

in your heart. The catch,

of course, is practice

makes perfect. Could be the foil

is light from what you spent

to study war: one hundred advances,

one hundred retreats, routines to catch

the steel, parade, touch each morning.

Ask yourself: does taking up

the weapon feel like tongue

receiving host, or shaking hands

with the butcher after you've paid?