We Go to War on Our Troubled Souls

Sestina:

We Go Out to War on Our Troubled Souls:

We go out to war on our troubled souls
To fight everything that makes us ourselves
Time and again we have fought our being
In order to gain a greater appreciation of what being means
We have fought and fought and fought and fought
And what do we have to show for it?

Everything ends with it
Everything ends with the death of our souls
Everything we fought
In the end this will be the death of ourselves
We will justify the end with the means
In the end there will be no being

There goes our being
Leaving everything behind with it
It is dead, what this means
Is that we have killed our souls
In a bloodbath brought on by ourselves
Why was this battle fought?

What else could we have fought
But our own being?
What are ourselves
But that which is it?
It being our dead souls
This is what it means

But is that really what it means?
Is that really our reason for what we fought?
Is that really what we did to our souls?
Is that really our being?
Is that really it?
Is this the end of ourselves?

We fought and I guess it is the end of ourselves
This what this means
This is it
This is why we fought
We have no being
We have no souls

And so in the end ourselves we fought
It means its our being
The end of it is the end of our souls