SNIPER

Sitting patiently atop his tree camouflaged

against the enemy, the sniper waits.

For three days and three nights he has waited

to do his duty for Imperial Japan.

Along the trail walks the enemy. Alert and ready

but not looking up, for this is where the sniper is,

waiting, watching, ready right now.

Levelling his gun, he takes careful aim.

The Aussies swim into focus in his x10 telescopic sights.

Soon it is over as two fall dead, their comrades fleeing

as the Nippon terror strikes,

for he is the sniper, amongst Japan’s best,

taking his war to the enemy.