Infiltrated

So you think you know it all.

You think you're safe.

You think your precautions

Are all that it will take

To keep you protected

And away from harm.

You put stock in technology

And cutting edge alarms.

Well,

You might have been right

But for all your strategizing

You forgot one thing,

That crucial element

You should've factored in.

You're smart and resourceful

But your adversary is more cunning still.

With honey on his tongue and jewel encrusted smile

He slowly took you in

And so you hesitated

When you should have made the kill.

And he laid low

For a hot minute or so

While you rested on the laurels

Of victories won long ago.

And so it happened

That while you slept,

He pressed the advantage

And silently crept

Through all your proud defenses,

Your walls and your electric fences.

All your hi-tech sensors have been undermined

Along with systems for early warning

And you have been kept blind.

But even now you cannot see

That it's too late

For, you see the enemy

Already stands within your gates.

Enemy Inside

Be careful when you go.

Watch your back.

Take care.

Words of warning

Spoken out of love and fear.

Admonition

Meant to guard against

The dangers lurking somewhere "out there."

Words

Assimilated and passed on.

Words

Turned tradition;

Handed down from father to son.

Words

That I have taken to heart.

Words

That have kept me 

Alert and sharp.

So when in your turn

You stepped into my world,

I wanted to welcome you

But for those words

Reminding me of the threat

That you in your innocence

Could potentially represent.

And without realising it,

Instinct took hold

Sending me into 

Self defense mode.

I threw up the walls.

I launched the grenades.

I pulled out the stops,

And went on crusades

All in an attempt

To protect myself

From the wildling,

The enemy,

Inside my fence.

Now looking back

Reluctantly,

I have finally come to see

That in all of my vigilant savagery 

The real beast in the story

Turned out to be me.