Focus

Listening is not understanding.
Focus! Damn it! Focus!
Filter out the smoke and mirrors
And the bogus hocus pocus.

Fixate on the target’s center,
Concentrate… Concentrate!
I’ll stay here until you get it right.
Don’t worry. I can wait.

Honing senses razor sharp is
Skill not mastered easily,
But it may yield the needed tools
To stave major catastrophe.

Every nuance, every tinge
To be examined one by one til
Doubt becomes a stranger and
The outcome cannot be undone.

Diagnose to finest pinpoints,
Unafraid of irons that stoke us,
We can douse the fiercest fire
If we can only focus. Focus. 

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