War for day 4? Not if I can help it

Izy has taken her Out of Standard challenge to a new level for today's "chapter in our Prompt a Day parade" for the online writers' group Imaginary Garden with Real Toads.

For this prompt, Izy shows us a video clip entitled This is the Way the World Ends, showing Justin Timberlake lip-synching the chorus from "All these Things that I've Done" by the singing group The Killers, from the 2006 movie Southland Tales.

She asks us to watch the video, and be inspired by it, because it has inspired her in the past. My poem, based on viewing the film clip twice is:

I’ve got soul

but I’m not a soldier.

if you’re coming to kill,

I’ll defend with my words—

I’ll defend with my songs—

beautiful ladies

with cottonball hair

are depending on me

to make sure the world ends

with music

with song

Timberlake

and with dance

with frolic

with fun

and romance

with laughter

with light

and every-

The Killers

thing bright,

and I won’t

let them down

at the end,

no, my friends,

I will not

let you down

at the end.