The Emptiness Of Gung Ho Postures And Attitudes Poem by John Sensele

Gung Ho machismo pushed to limits of puerile pomposity
Thrives in a world of alternative reality
But falls flat on its garrulous verbosity
Especially if hitched on the back of alacrity teeming with banality

Whose preference for megaphone diplomacy
Indicates an Achilles heel
In strategy whose lunacy
Cuts off the oxygen supply from the deal

Gung Ho machismo should have clinched hands down
If humility and clarity in approach and research
Stuck to simplicity and not obstinacy driven to town in favour of the gallery of a clown
Resulting in a loss leaving Gung Ho machismo in the lurch

Aiming to win vaunted labels as deal maker but succeeding only in reaping sown whirlwinds
And sustaining bruises not only to leadership reputations
But also hurting obstinate fiends
Whose blindness earns empty salutations in sterile missions

Whose outcomes
Too low for zero
Amount to puny sums
That in the end can't turn an abysmal failure into a hero.