Surrender by P.E.Ralph

Will that sardine ever give in ?
Nah ! Unless he feels trapped in that tin !

Our cute acorn will only ever cede
If a root and shoot shatter our little baby seed.

Germs ? They oppose the health-warnings of mums...
And then poor little baby sucks thumbs and succumbs !

Listen... no BANKER will EVER submit...
Except when the fan by the BROWN-stuff gets hit.

If AL-CAPONE had found A.A. one dark night,
Even AL COHOL would have lost the title fight !

Even STARKEST DARKNESS --- Prince Power Himself --- will resign
When one miniscule candle determines the time;
But that same candle's flame could become self-extinguished,
Burning oxygen's life 'till that, too,is relinquished,
Turning what one might count as world-war's valedictory
Into what might amount to bell-jar's Pyrric victory.

Goose-steps that beat France ? Doomed to yield
To Stalingrad's frost-bitten field !
Now... Napoleon could rule from a boat,
But could not make St. Helena float !

Those Romans ?
Trust in fire ! The sword !
Eagle's Ego !+
Lute and lyre can't afford...
Romans,PLEASE go !

Roman gods left thier nail-holes in feet of defeat;
But --- far from obscene --- was One God's unseen feat.