Retreat
Retreat:
(of an army) withdraw from enemy forces as a result of their superior power or after a defeat.
noun
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an act of moving back or withdrawing.
2. signal for a military force to withdraw.
if I retreat from the insults you hurl at me like pre-programmed bombs
carried by drones feigning stealth-mode surveillancethen I do so to watch you plant your colonizer flag in the sacred Earth’s natural minefield that will detonate without warning and scatter what remains of your best attempts to destroy me.
Mission failure.
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I love this one! Powerful use of the militaristic definitions.
Thank you, Meredith!