de·struc·tion

_noun_

1. the action or process of causing so much damage to something that it no longer exists or cannot be repaired.

2. the action or process of killing or being killed.

3. a cause of someone's ruin.

De-

-Struction

Removing structure

Opposite of

Construction

To build

To destroy

Remember Troy?

A gift

Of pain

A shift

To hope

In vain

A wooden horse

Don’t you dare

Trust it

Until you know

Its course

So easy to believe?

Whatever could you mean

That the enemy

Con-

-Structed

A gift

Of colossal size

Outside your very gates

Without your noticing?

And they left it there

Wooden not white

What about that says

We surrender?

Did no one think

Foul play

Before you fated

Your city?

De-

-Troyed

De-

-Stroyed

Not to see another day